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...ministers are irritated by suggestions that the E.U. is dragging its feet, pointing out that most of the calculations on stimulus packages forget the so-called automatic stabilizers: Europe's generous welfare payments that kick in when unemployment rises. "The U.S. government should better familiarize itself with economic-stimulus measures in Europe that have already been started or are about to get started," German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück said at a meeting of E.U. economic and finance ministers on March 9. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in February that she wants the G-20 summit to focus...
...Facing a deficit of 7-5, the pair took the momentum with a giant overhead smash by Rosekrans that landed in the gallery. Later in the game, she once again showed her skills at the net, angling a ball at the feet of her BC counterpart...
...good husband has been taken away from me, and my life has been destroyed. And what for? A piece of land that my husband is only going to get six feet of." Thus the anguished words of Kate Carroll, widow of police officer Stephen Carroll, who was murdered on March 9 in what appears to be a revival of the political violence that killed some 3,500 civilians, soldiers, police and paramilitaries over three decades in Northern Ireland...
...Zaidi told the court last month that he could not control his emotions once Bush started speaking. "I had the feeling that the blood of innocent people was dropping on my feet during the time that he was smiling and coming to say bye-bye to Iraq with a dinner," he was quoted as telling the court. "So I took the first shoe and threw it, but it did not hit him. Then spontaneously I took the second shoe, but it did not hit him either. I was not trying to kill the commander of the occupation forces of Iraq...
...brushed off the matter. "So what if a guy threw his shoe at me?" he said at the time. But Prime Minister al-Maliki was not as blasé, and many Iraqis sympathetic to al-Zaidi, including his family, laid Thursday's conviction squarely at the Prime Minister's feet. "This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner," the correspondent's brother Odai told reporters outside the courtroom. "This decision has been taken by the Prime Minister's office...