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...below near the top of Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid, N.Y., and U.S. lugers Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin are wearing skintight racing suits, perched atop a 2-ft.-wide sled. Martin sits behind Grimmette, legs straddling his teammate. "I've got no traction on my feet," yells Martin. Grimmette, like a longtime nanny, instantly wipes them down with his gloves. The pair, teammates for 10 years, alternate deep breaths. "All right, be aggressive," says Grimmette. "Yup," replies Martin. With that, the U.S.'s best-ever Olympic luge team shoots from the starting block. Now supine on the sled...
...Liberal Party; in Ottawa. Harper, with his wife and children on election night, above, moderated his reputation as a humorless right-winger, joking on the campaign trail about his lack of charisma. He made ethics in government a plank in his platform, capitalizing on voter exhaustion with incumbent Paul Martin's scandal-ridden Liberals. But because the Conservatives failed to win a House of Commons majority, Harper's government, which is expected to improve Canada's relations with the U.S., will need the political opposition's votes to pass legislation...
...Jerry Borrowman Sandy, Utah, U.S. I have no problem with the authorities' rooting out terrorists by legal means, but Americans should remember the kind of information collected by fbi chief J. Edgar Hoover and how he used it to threaten his personal enemies. One of Hoover's targets was Martin Luther King Jr. I would like to think that Canadian jurists would make quick work of any official who wiretapped without the approval of the court. Maurice A. Rhodes Nelson, Canada
...panel, entitled “Finding Balance in the Global Economy,” was chaired by Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf. Other participants included Palaniappan Chidambaram, the Indian finance minister; John A. Thain, chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange; and Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt...
Summers, a co-chair for the annual meeting, was joined by Mukesh D. Ambani, chairman and managing director of India-based Reliance Industries; Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman and chief executive officer of Nestlé in Switzerland; Sir Martin Sorrell, group chief executive of WPP; and London Business School Dean Laura D. Tyson...