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...wears its seagoing character on its face, with tugs and barges chugging up and down the harbor a stone's throw from the skyscrapers of the banks and trading houses. London and New York, by contrast, politely hide their tattooed seafarers' muscle out of sight, downriver or on the Jersey shore. But the sense of being a blue-water place is vital to the cities' success. It has made them open to trade, with all the transformative capacity that trade has to shake up established orders and make the exotic familiar...
...that it would be hard to solve one without dealing with the others. "You can't, for instance - if you take an issue like energy - talk about energy without talking about the environment, without talking about economics in this country, without the future and so on," said former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. "One is linked to the other." She added that none of these challenges could be met without two-party teamwork...
Lastly, Jason Smith, who, while serving as a federal grand juror in New Jersey in October 2003, provided information about an investigation of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company...
...Jersey-born, Rome-based Jesuit, Father Keith Pecklers, says the ideal successor "will be a combination of the two" most recent superior generals. "We need someone with Arrupe's prophetic vision and courage but also it's absolutely key the leader will be someone with the diplomatic skills Kolvenbach has to maintain close ties with Holy...
...somewhat distracted enthusiasm. Romney marched through each event with studied conviviality. After an abbreviated stump speech, he would walk gingerly through the crowd, stopping to comment when someone was decked out in conspicuous sports gear. In Johnston, he patted the shoulder of a man in a University of Missouri jersey and asked, "Oh, are you a 'grad'? I mean, a graduate...