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...ambitious goal - but Baucus is not used to giving up. At age 67, he still pushes himself to do 50-mile ultra?marathons. Running one in Maryland in 2003, Baucus fell at mile 8 but still managed to finish the remaining 42, bleeding from above his right eye. On health care too, Baucus knows that there may be a few bumps between him and the finish line...
...that they guarantee an instant crash. One is a terrorist attack on the world's biggest economy. Another is a global banking collapse. South Africa has a third trigger: the departure of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. When Manuel, 53, resigned on Sept. 23 last year, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell 4% in minutes. Actually, Manuel wasn't going anywhere. President Thabo Mbeki had been ousted in an internal party coup a few days earlier and protocol demanded Manuel step down before being reappointed by Mbeki's successor. When that was explained, the markets recovered quickly...
...Czechs were already struggling with their presidency role before the government fell. This was partly due to it being a small country taking on the presidency for the first time, but also to the sheer demands of steering the E.U. through the economic crisis. Unflattering comparisons with last year's activist French presidency - with critics complaining that the Czechs are doing too little - don't help, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been curtly dismissive of his successors at the E.U.'s helm. (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...been here before. The Italian government fell halfway through its presidency in 1996, while France held two rounds of presidential elections during its 1995 presidency. In those cases, major E.U. decisions had to be suspended during the changeovers. But with the E.U. facing the greatest economic crisis of its half-century existence, many are wondering how much bigger the knock-on effects will be of that one vote in Prague...
...Coming into its first matchup with the Highlanders, the Crimson had only played 12 games this season, as compared to Radford’s 19. Harvard’s lack of time in the dirt showed early in the game as the team quickly fell behind 4-0 by the third inning...