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...Irish question - the 21st century version of it, not the one that so vexed Victorian statesmen - has been settled. Ireland's Oct. 2 referendum vote in favor of the Lisbon Treaty and a new constitutional settlement for the European Union was decisive. It seems highly likely that Poland and the Czech Republic, the two holdouts in the process of ratifying the new treaty, will fall into line soon, however much it may pain Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the Saint-Just of Euroskepticism, to sign the document. By the beginning of next year, new institutional arrangements for the E.U. will...
...extra $5,500 in your 401(k) every year. If you are retired, give your nest egg time to replenish by forgoing for five years any distribution increases you had planned to offset inflation. That simple step puts the odds of not outliving your money back in your favor, according to T. Rowe Price. (See 10 big recession surprises...
Harvard came out with high energy in the first set, scoring its first two points off of consecutive kills by sophomore Sandra Lynne Fryhofer, who had a team-high .375 hitting average for the night. The play that shifted the momentum in Penn’s favor came with the Crimson up 9-5; after co-captain Chelsea Ono Horn served the ball, a series of ferocious spikes and blocks ensued and ultimately resulted in a kill by the Quakers’ Elizabeth Semmens—one of her career-high 26—that made the score...
Volcker also expressed fears about the government rescue of troubled banks. He argued in favor of a system in which the government could take over faltering institutions to prevent collapse—with the ultimate goal of dissolving such financial groups...
...Tree lives near Barcelona's one remaining bullring - the city used to have three - and he collected signatures in favor of the initiative to ban the sport. As he describes it, the only people who regularly fill the stands are tourists. "You get all these drunken tourists who come and yell their heads off as an animal is brutally killed. And they're only there because they think they're in a normal part of Spain, and that's what you do in Spain." (See pictures of Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival, La Tomatina...