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...62¢ in 2002, the turbocharged loonie shot past the U.S. greenback for the first time in nearly 31 years this September and kept right on soaring. Fueled by record prices for Canadian commodities, a surge in foreign investment and anxiety over the subprime-mortgage meltdown, the loonie broke the $1.10 barrier in early November. It has since settled close to parity. "The U.S. dollar is going to stay weak against major currencies for a while," says Dan Katzive, director of currency strategy at Credit Suisse in New York City...
...found McGeary in the corner for a three with 24 seconds left to make it a one-possession game.Northeastern guard Matt Janning hit two free throws with 16 seconds left, but Lin made it a one-possession game again with a lay-up with 6.6 seconds remaining.Bataille then broke away from the Crimson defense to bring in a long inbounds pass, forcing Housman to foul, setting up the final sequence.“I thought we did some really good things,†Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “We stretched it as well as we could...
...been a bumpy ride so far for Argentina's new president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. And barely more than a week has passed since she was inaugurated. Hailed as Argentina's new Evita, Fernandez had been in office for three days when her first crisis broke. It originated in faraway Miami, where Assistant U.S. District Attorney Thomas Mulvihill said in court that the FBI had recorded alleged Venezuelan agents saying that $800,000 confiscated by Argentine customs authorities in Buenos Aires four months ago was actually an illegal campaign contribution from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Fernandez' electoral campaign...
More recently, a small fire broke out on the exterior of the East Wing in 2000. That one started the way most White House fires start - as workers were painting or removing paint or otherwise refurbishing some corner of the place. In 1995, a tour bus burst into flames on Pennsylvania Avenue, across from the White House. The heat peeled the paint at Blair House, the presidential guesthouse. In the 1980s, there was a string of fire and smoke incidents under President Ronald Reagan, including one in the mess. But none did much damage...
...News of Sarkozy's new relationship first broke on the website of the newsweekly L'Express. The magazine's editor Christophe Barbier told a French television talk show on the weekend that Bruni, a friend of his, had told him that she was involved with Sarkozy. That confirmed mounting rumors that Sarkozy was not alone in his palace bedroom. France's paparazzi have tailed the President for weeks in search of his mystery woman, and French television journalist Laurence Ferrari recently sued two gossip magazines for linking her romantically to Sarkozy. By Saturday, Sarkozy was apparently ready...