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...forcing the Italian government to set up a series of bailouts that have drawn the ire of European Union competition regulators. In December 2006, then Prime Minister Romano Prodi put the government's 49.9% share of Alitalia on the selling block. Several potential buyers pulled out, and a takeover bid by Air France-KLM was blocked by the unions and the open disdain of then opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi...
...Watson was third in that regatta last year, advancing to nationals. Powers is looking for her first bid...
...ramping up of U.S. operations, Pakistani government and military officials believe, reflect a desperate bid to "get Bin Laden" before the Bush Administration leaves the White House. "It is all about the U.S. elections and Bush's legacy," says an aide to newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari. "But what purpose has it served? They have not got any high-value targets, and the public outrage only threatens to destabilize our new democratic government...
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won a narrow victory on Sept. 17 to become leader of the ruling Kadima Party, the first step in her bid to become the next Prime Minister...
...Knesset member Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael said he supported Livni's bid to become Kadima leader because "she was someone clean who believed in fair play." Livni, he says, is likely to pursue the U.S.-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians. In interviews, Livni says she believes in a two-state solution with the Palestinians as the only way for Israel to remain a Jewish and democratic state. Yet she will face the same lack of support for the peace process among her hawkish coalition partners, and Kadima Party members, that thwarted Olmert...