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...yellow, for Finance—and would pay a hefty price for it. DC politicos, environmental engineers, TFA groupies, and a tax lawyer wanted no part of the economic-turn-finance kid. One even tossed out the dreaded Goldman Sachs label while they all teamed to close off the circle...
...Caputo] knows his losses were close,” Weiss said. “He’s right in there with anybody…Hopefully we’ll get [Keddy] when it counts...
...refuge, but as a stepping stone to move closer to the Gulf States or to Europe." Qirbi says Yemen needs far more outside help than it's getting to handle the refugees. And Western analysts say all of the converging pressures mean that Yemen may be close to snapping. Indeed, it might not be long before Yemen starts to look a lot like Horn of Africa. "We left our country to escape the war. And that war is still in our minds," says Hassan from the floor of a concrete shack in Bassatine. "We don't need any more troubles...
...those were the numbers. The reality of the souring fiscal climate hit especially close to home when Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith unveiled in May a series of sweeping cost-cutting measures throughout FAS, which left few areas of student life untouched: fewer hot breakfast offerings, the closure of two campus cafes, the downgrading of three junior varsity teams to club status, and even reduced shuttle service. The cutbacks published on the FAS Web site amounted to $77 million in projected savings, or a third of the total $220 million projected annual deficit that FAS administrators...
...paradoxical shifts in opinions provide a fitting close to what has been the most tumultuous year of the prime minister's political career. There were the public gaffes: calling President Obama "well-tanned"; getting scolded by the Queen after raising his voice at a London photo op; making German Chancellor Angela Merkel wait on the red carpet while he spoke on his cell phone. Then there was his private life: his wife of 20 years filing for divorce; her accusations that he "frequents underage females"; a Bari prostitute revealing details of several encounters at his Rome residence.(Read "Hoq Silvio...