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...past masters at blaming their domestic policy failings on outsiders. Finger-pointing politicians and chest-beating nationalists in the two nations will make rational discussion nearly impossible. Yet it is time for leaders on both sides of the Pacific to lift their heads above overwhelming domestic concerns and fix China's deteriorating relationship with foreign business and the developed world before things get out of control. One thing's certain: they won't find the answers through Google...
Most of the Spanish players have day jobs (practices take place at night) and, for them, multi-tasking is a must. Ehrlich relates that the first night he was there, the team sent a man named Paco to fix his bed. Paco, it turned out, was also the Firebats’ starting defensive...
...Fix Football Restoring safety and sanity to the gridiron can't simply be left to the NFL's overlords. The pressures on players to perform may be too great, and the financial stakes too high, to expect the league's teams to back dramatic changes. Should others step in? High-level government intervention to quell violence in football would not be without precedent. A story in the Oct. 10, 1905, New York Times reads, "Having ended the war in the Far East, grappled with the railroad rate question and made his position clear, [and] prepared for his tour...
...Fight or Fix? "Your bosses are sociopaths! A bunch of Ted Bundys in $10,000 suits!" The words were hurled by an unnamed Democratic Congressman at a bank lobbyist who must also remain anonymous. Suffice it to say the lobbyist is getting used to hostile greetings. "We get it: we're al-Qaeda, and nobody wants to be seen with us," he says. "Obviously, we're going to take some abuse in 2010." Like most bank lobbyists, he says he supports financial reform - as long as it doesn't include a consumer agency or a bunch of other provisions that...
...ending TARP and otherwise maintaining the status quo; he's surprised the GOP hasn't paid a political price. "I'm disappointed with the zeitgeist," Frank says. "The Republicans are so extreme they couldn't help themselves; they actually proposed doing nothing. I would've thought refusing to fix a dysfunctional system would be unpopular." (See how Americans are spending...