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...another orange speck flickers on the radar screen, the captain gently pushes his twin-engine Lambro up to 30 knots. Two hours into an overnight patrol, the coast guard boat glides nearer its invisible target in the narrow strait separating the Greek island of Lesbos from mainland Turkey. The 36-ft. (11 m) cruiser slows as it draws close to its quarry, and its four Greek sailors gather at the front windshield. One of the men trips the Lambro's floodlights. Bobbing in the open sea 50 feet away are five young men, shielding their eyes from the sudden beam...
Then again, Congress can do things that a bankruptcy judge couldn't--such as revamp health care and retirement policy so the costs don't weigh so heavily on big old companies trying to reinvent themselves. That won't happen overnight. But this particular economic crisis is so wrapped up in past government decisions--about financial regulation, about budgets, about housing policy, about pensions and health care--that the private solution of Chapter 11 just may not be enough. Bankruptcy-by-another-name it is, then...
...busy and stressful and emotional.” To ensure the security of the re-vote, which was held on Friday and Saturday, PBHA officials traded shifts as poll-watchers and voters were asked to produce identification. The votes were held in a ballot box that was continuously monitored. Overnight, the ballots were kept in a lockbox. When the final ballot was tallied, Kelley was declared president, putting the folklore and mythology concentrator in Mather House at the helm of the century-old public service group...
...country's finance industry. They got one anyway. International bankers and investors yanked money from emerging markets worldwide. South Korea's banks rely more on external financing than most others in the region. Amid a global shortage of credit, the banks struggled to find financing, often borrowing on overnight markets at high interest rates. Foreigners dumped South Korean shares and the stock market plunged. On Oct. 16, the won lost nearly 10% of its value, its biggest one-day drop since the 1997 crisis...
...Obama doesn't have to turn the economy around overnight. After all, Roosevelt hadn't ended the Depression by 1936. Obama just needs modest economic improvement by the time he starts running for re-election and an image as someone relentlessly focused on fixing America's economic woes. In allocating his time in his first months as President, he should remember what voters told exit pollsters they cared about most - 63% said the economy. (No other issue even exceeded...