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With a sweep of four more states on March 4, John McCain officially captured the delegates needed to become the GOP nominee. By noon the next day, he and his wife were at the White House having lunch with onetime rival President George W. Bush and enjoying the embrace--albeit belated--of his party...
There’s no place like home for the Crimson—even on a grueling day overloaded with homework. Faced with consecutive opponents on Saturday—Binghamton (1-6) at noon and local rivals Boston College (2-3) in the evening—a young Harvard men’s tennis lineup showed a remarkable resilience and maturity to record 5-2 and 6-1 victories, respectively. Its achievement was made all the more remarkable by the absence of co-captains junior Chris Clayton and senior Dan Nguyen due to illness...
...Saturday and nearly noon in Bidor, Malaysia, a small rural town about 160 km north of the nation?s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The coffee shops are filling up with people, mostly rubber and oil palm farmers, many of whom roar into town in new Toyota and Ford pickup trucks. These small farmers are in a jolly mood. With commodities prices at highs not seen in generations, many are prospering to a degree that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers...
...predict the future? I don't plan these things. And I don't. My show is event-driven. I'm sitting here today and I happen to know I'm going to lead today with the Democrats last night, I think. But most days, when this show starts at noon and I've got my stuff in front [of me], I really don't know what I'm going to start with. It's almost all spontaneous...
...Russia's energy giant Gazprom has delivered a nasty welcome for a leader not beloved by the Kremlin. Gazprom late Thursday issued an ultimatum over new Ukrainian gas debts arising from a price hike, warning that it had instructed its services to turn off gas supplies to Ukraine by noon on Monday - the day before Yuschenko flies in - unless it is paid $1.5 billion...