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That's a good sign. In this delicate balance, if the Japanese hold their dollars, if the Chinese let the yuan rise even a little and suggest they are willing to go further, if Europe does something to jump-start demand at home, and if the U.S. addresses its budget shortfall--well, we may just escape this jam without a scratch. That's a lot of ifs. But, thankfully, everyone has something at stake. --With reporting by Steve Barnes/ Little Rock, Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Matt Forney/ Beijing, Jim Frederick/Tokyo, Peter Gumbel and Jonathan Shenfield/Paris, Eric Roston/Washington, Michael Schuman/Hong Kong...
...Bush plan for Iraq, Part 2 consists primarily of doing more of what his Administration tried to do in his first term: get more international help, accelerate the training of an Iraqi security force to take over, jump-start reconstruction and hold fair, credible elections in January. Washington officials sum it up as "Iraqification," the process of getting the U.S. out by shifting the political and security burden to locals. But as just about everyone who knows Iraq warns, that could take years, if it works at all. If Bush intends to see the job through, as he insists...
Leaders of Harvard Students for Israel expressed hope that Arafat’s death will give rise to a new Palestinian leadership that could jump-start the stalled Middle East peace process...
Activists hope that a move by Harvard to sell its shares of PetroChina could jump-start a broad divestment effort...
...judge, journalist, prefect or politician." Sarkozy has championed other controversial proposals. In 2003 he supported the creation of the French Council of the Muslim Religion, France's first official body representing the country's estimated 6 million Muslims; he broke a national taboo by calling for positive discrimination to "jump-start an integration model that has broken down"; and he opposed the controversial law banning Muslim head scarves and other overt religious symbols in French schools. "You can't solve problems and enforce security through repressive measures alone," Sarkozy says. "I believe those who work more should earn more...