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...Germany to absorb problems and still guarantee services to our people." Manuel Prados, president of adicae, an association of financial-services consumers, says 40% of Spanish households have trouble getting to the end of the month. And even some who don't have trouble found themselves vulnerable with the launch of an investigation last month into two large firms that solicited billions of investments in postage stamps (see Stamps of Disapproval). Can Spain stay the course? It seems almost churlish to ask. So much wealth has been created in the last two decades that Spaniards appear largely immune...
...industry grows--10.1 million North Americans will cruise this year, up 47% in five years--other lines are adding niche cruises and longer, luxurious trips, but Royal Caribbean is set on big. In 2009 it plans to launch a ship of biblical proportions, 40% larger than Freedom, with a price tag of $1.1 billion. Its name? Genesis...
...Zarqawi's home country. A Jordanian security official tells TIME that one month after the November 2005 suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman, which killed 60 people, Jordanian King Abdullah II ordered his intelligence officials to set up a new security branch, the Knights of God, to launch an offensive against terrorists outside the country's borders and eliminate al-Zarqawi. In addition to providing support to anti-Zarqawi tribes in Iraq, the Jordanians sought sources inside al-Qaeda who could lead them to the al-Qaeda boss. The official says that one informant, described as neither Jordanian...
...Liberalism, has just been published by Crown Forum. With predictable celerity, it has inspired another multiplatform media conflagration between her admirers and her opponents, some of whom don't seem to understand that controversy doesn't hurt book sales. Coulter, as usual, is using all the exposure to launch more attacks on liberals. TIME's John Cloud, who wrote the magazine's April 2005 cover story on Coulter, caught up with her via e-mail Wednesday night...
...made in improving the undergraduate experience,” though he cautioned that “we still have a long way to go.”It is this focus on the undergraduate experience touted by Summers, some say, that has allowed the College to proceed with the launch of the Undergraduate Life Fund. Established in February under the auspices of the Harvard College Fund—which is controlled by the dean of the Faculty—the fund gives the College access to its own steady source of alumni funding for the first time in recent memory...