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...efficiently back into the economy by investing in education and infrastructure. How much can other European countries learn from the North? French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, for one, acknowledges Nordic influence on some of his social policies. Germany's Finance Minister, Hans Eichel, even invited along his Swedish counterpart, Per Nuder, during last month's election campaign. But Denmark's former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen warned that simply borrowing Nordic policies without adapting them to national conditions would result in "bad karaoke." Still, the survey suggests Europe's biggest economies need to do something radical: France, Germany, Spain...
Tuesday, Nov. 15. Liberal radio host Al Franken and his conservative counterpart, Rush Limbaugh, will appear together at an event that’s sure to be jam-packed. 7:30 p.m. The Charles Hotel, Regatta Bar Room. Only the first 200 people who arrive will be allowed to attend...
...listen." But Hill's real talent may be the trust he can inspire in those who matter. In the Korean talks, he has been given a long leash by U.S. President George W. Bush and Rice. Hill forged an unlikely bond with his rough-edged, chain-smoking Chinese counterpart Wu. Though he doesn't normally smoke, Hill bummed cigarettes from Wu during breaks, and impressed him by producing perfect smoke rings, a skill he'd picked up as a young Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. Hill, too, came to admire Wu for his intelligence and his persistence...
...Crimson counterpart had a far greater impact, which was made apparent in the first quarter, when the junior left the game on the third series. Holding his side in pain, Dawson left the field for a span as the Crimson offense sputtered and the Brown defense breathed a sigh of relief...
...ring that federal investigators code-named Titan Rain, first caught Carpenter's eye a year earlier when he helped investigate a network break-in at Lockheed Martin in September 2003. A strikingly similar attack hit Sandia several months later, but it wasn't until Carpenter compared notes with a counterpart in Army cyberintelligence that he suspected the scope of the threat. Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find, and they were getting them by penetrating secure computer networks at the country's most sensitive military bases, defense contractors and aerospace companies...