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...Denver’s a team we’ve never played before and we weren’t quite sure what to expect,” co-captain Perry Barlow said. “We knew they were good, but they came out and they were strong and they were fast. And we’ve been adjusting to the altitude...
...G.O.P. candidates, but already Romney's campaign is predicting they will have a healthy "burn rate" - a measure of how much money raised actually gets saved for future campaign expenses. A Romney campaign source says that of the money they took in last quarter they expect to bank around the same amount McCain earned in total. McCain's office declined to say what it expects its burn rate to be, but its expenses have been considerable, with the Senator traveling aggressively over the last three months...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held at in late March in Aswan, Egypt, with intelligence chiefs from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, according to U.S. diplomats familiar with her agenda. Israel is considered to be the Hamas' main target, but if the Palestinian unity government breaks apart, as many expect, Hamas may also be steeling itself for an armed showdown with Fatah militants loyal to Abbas. "The flow of funds and arms [to Hamas] is not conducive to peace and stability," said a source close to the peace process. "You don't want to have arms caches built...
...working behind the scenes to stop the U.S. aid package to upgrade Abbas's forces. Referring to the Israelis, this official said, "If they're having all these very real, legitimate smuggling problems, then why block an aid package to help the presidential guard?" He added, "You can't expect untrained, unskilled and unqualified people to go into action. Not all of them even have boots...
...standards of the Swedish chemist, but early by most measures. We published our first cover story on the topic in October 1987. "It is too soon to tell whether unusual global warming has indeed begun," wrote Michael D. Lemonick. But if the climate did begin to change, we could expect "dramatically altered weather patterns, major shifts of deserts and fertile regions, intensification of tropical storms and a rise in sea level...