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...least Washington and Caracas are talking again. Diplomats say Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro has made an effort to reach out to the Obama Administration. On the U.S. side, much of the credit goes to Thomas Shannon, outgoing Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Shannon, appointed in 2005, worked to alter President George W. Bush's dark first-term relations with Latin America, when Chávez called Bush "the devil" in large part because the White House had tacitly backed the 2002 coup attempt. As a result, the Latin left has less anti-Yanqui fodder...
...failing to make headway against the staunch Harvard defense. The teams combined for only seven shots in the first 36 minutes of play.Providence managed to jump ahead at 36:04 when a Crimson defender was called for a foul in the home team’s box. Friar Ryan Maduro converted the penalty kick low right, tallying his second goal of the season.Harvard quickly responded five minutes later, when Fucito sprinted down the right sideline, shook off defenders, and delivered a cross to junior Andre Akpan. His header past Providence goalie Tim Murray was Akpan’s seventh...
...about $56 million. But that same year, Britain's Inland Revenue said no, declaring that Marks & Spencer had no right to deduct its Continental losses because they hadn't been incurred in Britain. The retailer appealed the decision to the E.C.J., and last week E.C.J. advocate general Miguel Poiares Maduro weighed in on its side. He said the British ruling was a violation of the E.U.'s founding Treaty of Rome, which enshrines the freedom of establishment and outlaws any form of discrimination based on nationality. He said the British law "imposes a specific disadvantage on operators desirous of moving...
...billion. That's a whopping 1.5% of Germany's gross domestic product, an amount that Berlin can ill afford at a time of squeezed budgets. At the Luxembourg hearing, the German government argued that the court should take into account the potentially huge budgetary repercussions. But Poiares Maduro explicitly...
Philadelphia (Maduro 0-1) at San Francisco (Estes...