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IMF chief heckled by students at University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam - Christine Lagarde barely got a chance to open her mouth when giving a lecture at the University of Amsterdam, when student hecklers rose up and started a typical Occupy mic check.
On Tuesday, during a lecture at the University of Amsterdam's economics department, a group of Dutch, Greek and Spanish students rose up and started a mic check, confronting the former French Finance Minister and current Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with a number of questions she would rather have avoided.
Students attending the lecture had been asked to submit questions before the "debate". However, they were angry that their notes had apparently been ignored by Lagarde.
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Yet another later asked Lagarde why the IMF submits developing countries to Western imperialism, to which Lagarde responded that “we will not do that question”. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349720#ixzz2Shn1yySx
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