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...Washington's conviction that perception is reality, Geithner's fate rests less on how he performs in public than on how his plans fare: the market and most Americans care a lot more about the substance of the Administration's efforts to save the economy than they do about Geithner's thin delivery. Sure, he doesn't seem to fill his suit, and he talks too quickly, and he swallows the ends of his sentences, and he gives the impression of a grad student taking an oral exam, not someone leading the country out of perdition...
...privilege to play against ranked teams,” Crimson coach Traci Green said. “Now we will get some rest and get back on track.” OLD DOMINION 5, HARVARD 2 After a humbling defeat the previous day, the Crimson did not fare much better Sunday versus Old Dominion, as Harvard lost, 5-2, to the Monarchs in Norfolk, Va. For the Crimson, Davis emerged victorious for the second straight day, and Rosekrans was the only other player to earn a point. “We struggled a bit,” Green said...
...Fare Sale. American Airlines is putting international destinations on sale. Fly Los Angeles-London for $203 each way, New York-Tokyo for $425 each way or Miami-Aruba for $135 each way. The fares are good for travel Monday through Thursday, or Monday thru Wednesday for the U.K. routes. Buy by March 10; all travel must be completed by May 20. Check the website for other details...
...book, and in the authors' interview this week with TIME, the men make it clear that it wasn't just jungle fare that left a bad taste in their mouths. Some of their more unpleasant memories are saved for fellow hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian who was kindapped while campaigning for the Colombian presidency and was rescued along with the Americans and 11 other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other...
...doing more than their fair share of letting employees go these days, that's not just because mass layoffs at blue chip firms are the ones that make headlines. New research suggests that in times of recession, large employers disproportionately lose workers, while small companies, as a group, fare better. "It's definitely the case that large firms are downsizing much faster in recessions," says Giuseppe Moscarini, an economist at Yale University who conducted the research with Fabien Postel-Vinay of the University of Bristol...