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...been trailing Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) by up to 15 points for months. The French Socialists were trounced by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 and have never recovered. The Italian left was bested by Silvio Berlusconi last year. And in Britain, the Labour party is staring at near certain defeat at the hands of Tory leader David Cameron in elections to be held by next year. (See pictures of world leaders on vacation...
...near future, Coke's China investments will be massive. The company, which has spent $1.6 billion in China since 1979, plans to invest $2 billion in growth over the next three years. (Last year, Pepsi announced a $1 billion investment in China over the next four years.) Coke opened a $90 million research center this year in Shanghai, where it has developed new products like the grape, lemon and mixed-fruit flavors added to the Chinese version of Minute Maid, a pulpy fruit drink known as Guo Li Chen...
With twenty minutes left to play, a diving Kristen Mewis put a header off a cross into the near post for a 3-1 lead, and Victoria DiMartino gave her team a three-goal edge on her eighth score of the season...
Flybyblog and blockmates (hereby known as The Entourage) were sitting in Adams D-Hall the other night when we had a near celebrity run-in. No, Ben Affleck did not trump house-only dining—it was none other than campus pseudo-celeb DJ Straus...
...Qods Day protests told TIME that crowd sizes well equaled the large protests that took place in past months. Just as in previous demonstrations, old and young individuals from various social backgrounds attended the rallies, clashing with security forces and plainclothes Basiji militias and loudly voicing slogans during marches near the site of the President's speech at the University of Tehran's Friday prayers...