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...With Germans set to vote in parliamentary elections on Sept. 27, Merkel seems eager to create an exit strategy on Opel in case negotiations blow up on her. "The situation is that we have decided with a clear preference to advocate the Magna plan," Merkel told German television channel N-24 on Aug. 26. "There is a good possibility that we will come together...
...What you won't read in the tweets by @CO11MetPolice - the Met's incarnation on Twitter - is the reason that London's police are so eager for the climate camp to go off without serious incident. Once internationally famous for great detective work and the sweetly old-fashioned appearance of its dome-helmeted "bobbies," the Met (also known as Scotland Yard, the name of its first headquarters) has seen its reputation tarnished of late. In the wake of the July 7, 2005, London bombings, Met police marksmen mistook Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes for a terrorist and fatally shot...
...second installment of results, announced on Wednesday, President Hamid Karzai extended his lead over his top challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. After a dead heat the first day, he now stands at nearly 45% of the vote vs. 35% for Abdullah. Eager as Afghans and media outlets are for fresh information, the figures still reflect only 17% of the more than 27,000 polling sites nationwide. Moreover, they were drawn from less than half of the country's 34 provinces. As a result, even as some observers posit a Karzai victory, it's still hard to gauge where...
Boomers do this regularly, of course - make up stuff about how great they are. They're also eager consumers of goods that jog the memory of their greatness. This explains the current avalanche of hagiographic Woodstock products - DVDs, oral histories, "40th Anniversary Flashback Edition" paper dolls - which is not the most apt way to recall a moment supposedly unbound from commercialism. (The promoters tried to charge $24 for a three-day ticket, but the booths and turnstiles were never set up.) But picking one's way through the mess is worthwhile, if only to find Woodstock - 40 Years On: Back...
...middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods, there's a fixation on 40 or 50 so-called "top colleges." So you have extraordinary numbers of students jockeying for the same places in certain schools. I think the tough economy makes a lot of parents more eager to latch onto a brand...