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Meanwhile, at the White House and Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in a sedate office building in Arlington, Va., all is relatively calm. A lot can happen between February and November: more bad guys captured abroad, more good economic news at home. Pollster Matthew Dowd frequently reassures folks that the President's numbers are not unlike Ronald Reagan's in 1984 or Clinton's in 1996, that a certain weakening is to be expected as the opposition converges behind a nominee, who gets a big boost of positive press coverage. "Just because they're out there calling us a liar doesn...
...Public-diplomacy officers employed by the State Department to boost the U.S.'s image abroad, down from...
...dissatisfaction with veiled threats and a shift of his economic team (but no major cabinet reshuffling) may have only delayed an inevitable confrontation. "While the country shows growing signs of discontent, the government remains consumed with its own internal maneuverings," says an opposition spokesman. Still, with his high profile abroad, Berlusconi manages to rise above domestic squabbling in the eyes of his supporters. Last week, he left behind the rancor in Rome and jetted off to Tripoli to meet with Muammar Gaddafi as the Libyan leader continues to seek rapprochement. It was a rare bright spot: Italy's stint...
...money to keep its economy humming. The Chinese and American economies have grown so interconnected that even Beijing's efforts to throw Washington a bone by curbing some exports irritate certain U.S. firms. In October, China responded to U.S. pressure by reducing a tax rebate for firms selling abroad. Multinationals operating in China complained. "Foreign companies were hurt disproportionately because so many are set up for export and expected that rebate," says a senior executive of Motorola, which sells Chinese-made mobile phones around the world. Sales from foreign companies operating in China account for more than half of China...
...return to in September as a senior is nearly indistinguishable from the one she came to in the September of her freshman year. Although her absence has changed our Harvard, it hasn’t changed Harvard. And ultimately, this may be the change wrought by study abroad: a transformed definition of the Harvard experience instead of a transformed Harvard. For future generations of college students, tango lessons may seem as quintessentially collegiate as Tercentenary Theatre...