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Other Catholic leaders hailed the choice of Cyril, who received 508 of the 700 votes cast at Tuesday's balloting among a commission of lay and clergy leaders in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral. He defeated a conservative rival, Metropolitan Kliment. "This was the best result we could have hoped for," said one Rome-based Catholic priest involved in ecumenical dialogue. "He's always been a moderate, and open minded, and now that he's reached the top, he's free to pursue closer ties with [the Vatican]." (See 10 things to do in Rome...
...losses in these regions is so troubling. Leading the job cuts are New York City, which is expected to undergo more painful layoffs in the financial sector, and Los Angeles, where depressed home prices have ravaged the local economy. The report also predicts that the overall unemployment rate in metropolitan areas will rise above...
...metropolitan areas with the largest predicted 2009 job losses...
...paper was doomed by the triple threat laying waste to metropolitan dailies everywhere: the massive drop in advertising, particularly home and classified ads; the ready availability of free news online; and the limitations of the corporate parent - although Hearst, which owns 16 daily papers and another 16 magazines in the U.S., is one of the sturdier media giants. The P-I's main rival, the Seattle Times, is owned by a local family and is enmeshed with the P-I in a joint operating agreement. It, too, is in dire straits. Seattle, noted Horsey and others, could become the first...
...needed most - a tough sell in the Senate, where every state has equal power. But Obama should drive a hard bargain. He could provide more aid to states that promote energy efficiency through building codes and incentives for utilities. He could funnel aid directly to transit agencies and metropolitan governments, which tend to be more progressive than states. He could take Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell's advice and give loans instead of grants, which would both help the Treasury down the road and encourage states to make wise investments. He could require states that receive bailouts to promote wind...