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...implacable enemy of cant, mediocrity and the quiet life. Not even his near-death experience on that road in Western Australia could return Hughes to the faith of his childhood. But the rest of us can thank the God of St. Ignatius, Parmigianino and medieval art that, at a crucial point in the line of his life, there was a Fishhook to save...
...Losing to Penn [last Saturday] put us in a hole that we now need to get ourselves out of, and beating Yale will be the perfect way to do it,” Altchek said. In both the Penn and Rhode island contests, the Crimson squad underperformed at crucial periods. “We made a few mistakes at key moments,” Altcheck said. “It was just a question of executing.” The team will look to freshman forward Andre Akpan to continue his stellar play on offense. Meanwhile, Harvard will rely...
...just the 2008 presidential race that is bringing hopefuls including John McCain, Bill Frist, John Edwards and Evan Bayh to northeastern Iowa these days. They're pitching in to help candidates vying in one of the most hotly contested, crucial 2006 congressional races. That's because after 15 years in Congress, Republican Jim Nussle is giving up his seat representing Iowa's 1st district to run for governor, making this rare open seat a must-win if the Democrats have any real hope of regaining control of the House of Representatives...
...opposition leaders, who are all former allies and top officials of Nazarbayev, have not fared well. Former Energy Minister Mukhtar Ablyazov was jailed in 2002 for embezzlement and misuse of state funds. A year earlier former Prime Minister Akezhan Kazhegeldin, who played a crucial role in liberal economic reform, was forced into exile and tried in absentia for financial abuses, was sentenced to 10 years and had his property confiscated. Last November, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, a former regional Governor and Emergencies Minister who had become a strong critic of Nazarbayev and opposition leader, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds...
...Europe. As for the hugely influential U.S. market, where the industry used to pass off environmental liability onto government, insurers now believe that climate change is so serious a threat to business that they can't wait for the public sector to take the initiative. "The industry is crucial to the functioning of the global economy," says Andrew Logan, energy and finance program director at the ethical investment organization CERES. If the developed world is truly committed to reducing carbon emissions before the earth reaches what Stern describes as a catastrophic warming tipping point, then the insurance industry will need...