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...position because of the unpopularity of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout that Congress passed last fall to help stabilize the nation's ailing banks. Half of that money has already been used up by the Bush Administration, and with little indication that such usage has helped ease the flow of lending to consumers and businesses, members of Congress are loath to hand over the rest of the money without guarantees of greater oversight and transparency. And so Senate Democratic leaders are struggling to prevent their members from passing a Resolution of Disapproval of the Troubled Asset Relief Program...
...last five minutes of the game, Yale was hit with back-to-back penalties, giving the Crimson a powerplay for nearly three minutes. But what could have been another chance for Harvard to close the scoring gap was wasted, as a misconduct call on both teams interrupted the flow of the game and deflated the Crimson’s offensive drive.Fraser scored again with under a minute on the clock, but Harvard’s attempts to regroup ended up being too little, too late.HE’S ALL RILED UPJunior goalie John Riley notched 15 saves...
...Moscow. E.U. inspectors have now arrived in the Ukraine to assuage Russia that Kiev is not surreptitiously siphoning off gas from the pipeline transiting the country, and Moscow has pledged to turn the gas taps back on as soon as the observers start work in monitoring the gas flow at Ukrainian pumping stations...
...Moscow began turning off the gas to Ukraine's pipes on Jan. 1, and by Tuesday it had reduced the supply to one-fifth its normal flow. On Wednesday, it cut the supply entirely. By then, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Croatia and Bosnia all reported a virtual shutoff in gas deliveries, and a resulting shortage in homes and businesses. So did Bulgaria, where the chill of the Russian gas cut was so swift - and where reserves are so low - that officials said they would consider restarting an unused nuclear power plant to compensate...
...Sarkozy is offering himself for the role. That alone means Israel won't have everything its way. The international outcry over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza means the broker will insist that Israel loosen the economic shackles as well as withdraw troops. And when the money begins to flow in, it will flow through the Hamas networks that control every aspect of Gaza. The militants will distribute some of the money to Gazans, looking like generous benefactors; the rest they will use to rebuild their military capability...