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Obama was careful in his comments about the U.S. auto industry, which is on the brink of bankruptcy and seeking a government bailout. While describing the industry "historically as the backbone of America's manufacturing base," he split the difference between advocating direct loans of the kind denied by Congress last week and doing nothing. Obama vowed to "help the auto industry," but noted, "We can't just write a blank check ... I was surprised that they did not have a better thought-out proposal when they arrived in Congress...
...This group is in broad agreement that while things will be pretty ugly over the next several months, the nearly $600 billion fiscal package announced by Beijing in mid-November, along with a host of other measures, will keep the Chinese economy's head well above water. As Beijing-based economist Arthur Kroeber points out, the same factors that driven China's extraordinary growth will provide a base of GDP growth that could amount to as much as 6 or 7% a year. "People who don't follow China on a regular basis can miss some of the underlying drivers...
...area say they just don't see MONUC, that MONUC is almost an irrelevance in their lives. I would agree with that. We would like to be more present. You have situations where there is a population of 60,000, and we have 120 soldiers in a base. In those circumstances, they might well say that they have not seen us. North Kivu is twice the size of Belgium, and a third of our forces are there, though for obvious reasons, they are mostly in and around Goma. I can understand the frustration. But you can see the scale...
...advance publicity for the biography he is penning. But in introducing those who frequent these social circles, from the editor-in-chief of ArT magazine to the fledging artists themselves, Kehlmann asserts that blatant self-promotion in an era dominated by the adoration of the celebrity is at its base, a worthless endeavor as it is emotionally unsatisfying: “The evening had been a real success, they’d all seen me with Kaminski, everything had gone well. Yet suddenly I felt sad.”And yet, while the novel engages with a whole range...
...chairman in January, he will move swiftly to temper the party's tone, using the model of Ronald Reagan, who, he says, "made it cool to be a conservative." But one of Steele's more daunting mandates will to be to broaden the GOP's base of black voters. "I'll tell local chairmen, 'If you want to be chairman under my leadership, don't think this is a country-club atmosphere where we sit around drinking wine and eating cheese and talking amongst ourselves. If you don't want to drill down and build coalitions in minority communities, then...