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...were not running, I'd be supporting him." The new early-state focus is also a defensive move. The latest polls show Mitt Romney solidly ahead in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Giuliani can't afford to let the former Massachusetts Governor get a dangerous burst of momentum just before the round of all-important big-state primaries...
...Comite Anti Stierenvechten (CAS) which is based in the Netherlands and Belgium. But it follows Barcelona's groundbreaking move banning bullfights altogether in the city; 42 other cities and towns have declared their opposition to the sport. Spain's antitaurinos, as those opposed to bullfights are called, are gaining momentum, with scores of demonstrations and protests held across the country in places with a significant bullfighting tradition like Bilbao, Madrid and Seville. "In reality we are the real taurinos, the bull lovers," says CACMA president Antonio Vicente Moreno Abolafio...
...problem comes as Blitz increasingly relies on this tension of real and unreal to take viewers through some absurd twists in the plotline, making events seem jerky and disjointed. The result is a movie that loses momentum in its second half as relationships slowly sink into irrelevance. The debate competition finale brakes too early and abruptly, and we’re left with twenty minutes of depressing anticlimax...
...grown an average 7% over the past five years, low inflation and a stable currency. His campaign promised more economic, social and political reforms to bring Turkey in line with European Union standards, even though the country's bid for membership in the E.U. has lost much of its momentum amid European opposition...
Dodge & Cox is used to being popular. After the late-'90s tech-stock bubble, investors disillusioned with momentum plays grew hip to the firm's strategy of buying out-of-favor companies and patiently waiting for them to rebound. Although Dodge & Cox doesn't advertise and shies from almost all publicity, word spread. In the wake of scandals involving some fund firms giving preferential treatment to big-time investors, money poured into Dodge & Cox, which consistently wins top grades on corporate governance from Morningstar and often appears in commentary pieces like "Our Favorite Sleep-at-Night Funds." (Disclosure: Through...