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Kadima's first priority is to keep its Likud and Labor recruits from drifting back to home base. Labor managers are eager to grasp what they see as a fresh opportunity to boost their flagging leader, trade unionist Amir Peretz, whose lack of experience in diplomacy and security issues pushed middle-of-the-roaders toward Sharon. The man who hopes to profit most from Sharon's tragedy, however, is his archrival, Benjamin Netanyahu, the onetime Prime Minister whose tenure was marked by relentless opposition to any territorial trade-aways. Left running a rump party populated by the far right that...
...Bolivia, Morales got his boost by being the enemy of the enemy. In 2002 the former coca growers' union chief and head of the Movement Toward Socialism Party was just another presidential candidate--until the U.S. threatened to cut economic aid to Bolivia if Morales won. That backfired, catapulting Morales into a runoff vote he narrowly lost. The often violent demonstrations that followed led to the resignation of two successive Bolivian Presidents. But now Morales faces his own unrest. His economically shaky plans to nationalize Bolivia's natural-gas reserves--which are South America's second largest and coveted...
...Morgan Stanley's Pereira, but "the forces underlying European M&A trends are much stronger than any episodic national pushback." Indeed, mergers have a way of perpetuating themselves. Barrett says that chief executives of European companies are now under pressure from their boards to do deals in order to boost growth. "The subdued M&A activity over the past three years had a lot to do with the fragility of ceo confidence," he says. But companies now are looking at the growing number of deals being made "and they're asking: Are we being too cautious?" It remains...
...whom have not been hospitalized at all. People already taking some kind of antibiotics appear to be especially susceptible-no surprise since the use of such germ killers can, paradoxically, help drug-resistant strains emerge. But disease trackers are alarmed to discover that common heartburn medications can also dramatically boost your risk of contracting C. diff. Whatever the co-factors in the pathogen's rise, health officials are fighting to control it-fast...
...wins.Grade: B-BACKCOURTAny talk of the backcourt has to start with freshman point guard Drew Housman.Most people surrounding the Harvard program figured that junior guard Jim Goffredo would be a strong scorer from the shooting guard position and that Michael Beal could be a solid swingman and provide a boost on the defensive end.But no one knew who was going to play the point. Would Beal have to move back there, while the freshmen were brought along? Would one of the freshmen take over? Would it be a point-by-committee system?Housman answered those questions immediately, grabbing the starting...