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...Republicans on national security. And I think with Edwards, you know we compete with John Edwards for the Iowans, you know the traditional Iowa caucus-goers and I think at this stage we've really opened up the field. They find Joe Biden is more authentic, and closer to them in terms of their philosophy...
...sight, imposed a curfew at locations across the country and barred people from leaving the slums, a tactic which may have contained the violence but also kept innocent people from fleeing. The television channel KTN said 124 people had been killed, but other media tallies put the death toll closer...
...three pointer with 1:28 left. Guard Luke Granato hit another pair of free throws to cap the run. Junior forward Evan Harris finally gave the Crimson a score to make it a seven-point game with 1:02 to play, but the team would not get any closer. “The key for us down the stretch was getting defensive stops,” Harris said. “We would do a good job for 30 seconds, but not finish. They did a great job of attacking our zone.” The late...
...ousted in last year's military takeover, came within 12 seats of capturing an absolute majority in parliament. But the win is not as convincing as it appears: it falls far short of the landslide victory Thaksin himself scored in a 2005 election, and the popular vote was much closer than the number of seats in parliament won by the two leading parties would indicate (The PPP won 229 seats; the second-place Democrat Party, 164). Despite the PPP's strong showing, its leaders spent Monday bargaining with smaller parties to forge the legislative coalition it will need to form...
...Blackstone's share price has sunk 38% below its June 2007 listing price of $31, costing CIC more than $1billion. That pratfall appears to have prompted CIC to rein in its ambitions. Instead of making splashy investments in the U.S. and Europe, the fund is now looking closer to home. It recently bought into Central Huijin Investment Co., a government agency with stakes in several of China's biggest state-run banks and brokerages, and will reportedly plunk an additional $66billion into the Agricultural Bank of China. To the extent that CIC looks for investments abroad, its chairman...