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...only has he proven that he’s an asset to the Crimson baseball team, but Way has also made remarkable improvements in his second year on the team. Currently, the sophomore has a .306 batting average—third highest on the team—and three home runs and 13 RBI on the season. It is not surprising, then, that he has stepped into the role as the designated hitter on the team and has gained a spot as a starter...
...involvement of jihadists is not ruled out by the report, nor is the possibility that Mehsud - once an ISI asset - may have been involved. But it suggests his potential involvement would have formed part of a broader conspiracy. The report also does not rule out the involvement of elements within Pakistan's powerful military establishment...
...financial sector is another region where Obama’s failure to advertise has cost him popularity points and political cache. Though the financial meltdown dominated global conversation for months, it has recently faded into the background of political discourse. Through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75’s aggressive policies, and the Obama administration’s bold moves, the financial system has been resuscitated to a quasi-functional state, all to the negligence of the media and resultant ignorance of the general public...
...nothing has driven China's growth more than real estate investment. Last year, fixed-asset investment accounted for more than 90% of China's overall growth, and residential and commercial real estate investment made up nearly a quarter of that. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...perspective, consider that every dollar of tax revenue collected at the federal level in 2009 was used to pay for the cost of entitlement programs. Spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and all other defense and discretionary spending was financed solely by deficit spending. In short, even if we decided that the government’s only job was to manage these entitlement programs and cut all other spending to zero, we’d still only break even—our $12.7 billion of existing national...