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...have this straight. it's O.K. to lie about the reasons for invading another country but not O.K. for two men or two women to marry. It's O.K. to hand our children a budget deficit that will choke them but not O.K. to use stem cells to fight disease. It's O.K. to duck the real war on terrorism, jeopardize Social Security and take a pass on fixing the health-care system but not O.K. to believe in the separation of church and state. Would those be the famous "moral values"? Thanks, but no. You keep yours...
...Europe Stop the Dollar's Dive? Will the U.S. dollar's continuing slide against the euro choke off Europe's economic recovery...
...finances. Hankerson reluctantly agreed to participate, but midway through the course, the couple was ready to give up. "I picked fights," Rose confesses. "I cut him off. I always had to have last, first, in-between words." Hankerson often deflects conflict with a joke--"Sometimes I want to happily choke her," he says. The soft-spoken father says Faverey drew him out during the home visits and showed Rose how to listen. "She helps us see both sides," he says after the last class, as Faverey checks on the couple's progress toward their goal of leaving public housing...
...plunging into its clients' business? Chief executive Mike Eskew saw an opportunity: "Customers wanted one throat to choke when the pressure was on to deliver. We offered them UPS's throat," he says. UPS already dominates small-package ground delivery in the U.S., handling 13.7 million packages daily and moving items worth 6% of the U.S. GDP every 24 hours. By leveraging its operational efficiency, UPS is attacking what Eskew estimates might become a $3 trillion market--not only taking on smaller, European-based logistics firms like Exel and TNT but also fending off competitive pressure from Belgium-based...
With that in mind, as well as last weekend’s near choke in Hanover, the Crimson should have some extra motivation to hand Columbia a pretty stiff beating. But this is the Ivy League, and games just never wind up being that simple...