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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was 40,000 feet in the air on Sept. 21, en route to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, when he got the news. Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, after sneaking back into his Central American country, had shown up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa seeking refuge. Lula, like every other world leader, has called for Zelaya's restoration ever since the Honduran was ousted by a military coup on June 28, so he had little choice but to let him into the embassy. But when Lula arrived...
Omodele-Lucien and freshman Joshua Tchan were seeded No. 3 in the No. 1 doubles event and had an easy going early, winning two matches due to injury retirements and defeating Bandhari/Jaklitsch, 8-1, en route to an appearance in the round...
...Most of these changes cannot be "scored" by accountants as yielding savings, since no one knows exactly how the system will respond to the new rules. Will doctors and hospitals revolt en masse against the changes? Will improved treatment really lead to a significant drop in unneeded procedures? "You need to give things a chance to change," explains Joseph Aslop, a health adviser for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). "If you put [the pressure] on too hard too fast, things are going to break." (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...actually be less likely to accept a settlement now, given what a bitter pill Zelaya's return is for him to swallow," says Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society in New York and editor of the Americas Quarterly. "If so, both sides are probably en route to an institutional train wreck." (Read why Obama won't use the M word - military - for the coup in Honduras...
...business and employment laws. Black and red means a continuation of the careful (some would say overcautious) politics of the past four years. Whatever the outcome, this election will be more interesting to watch than many in years past, if only to find out which colors will be en vogue this fall in Berlin...