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...their after-dinner drinks seriously should head to Highway4 (www.highway4.com). This wholly authentic bar-restaurant insists that patrons take off their shoes before they sit on cozy bamboo mats and indulge in Vietnamese rice wines with purported medicinal properties. Lychee and banana-flavored shots get the night going, but potent animal-based spirits are said to have more lasting effects: snake wine reduces back pain and scorpion wine is thought to be a sexual stimulant...
...Howard Government gives the impression of being baffled as to how it could be facing electoral defeat at a time when the Australian economy, despite the strain of rising interest rates, is in fine shape. Of all the factors working against the Government, among the most potent is widespread distrust of its employer-friendly overhaul of the system for dealing with labor and workplace disputes. And here the dreaded parallel with the unfortunate Stanley Bruce becomes more stark. Bruce's demise in 1929 followed a period of industrial mayhem involving miners and laborers. For the perception that he's messed...
...Crimson, the offense didn’t get the message that there was another quarter to play. George Washington quickly posted a two-goal advantage at the start of the fourth and then clamped down on defense, leading to five minutes of goal-less play.The Colonials featured a potent, counterattacking offense that took advantage of Harvard’s numerous turnovers.“That’s kind of their game style,” Livingston said. “We couldn’t hold them in the frontcourt, and in the fourth quarter, their counters started becoming...
...Eastern Europe does, competitiveness is on the rise among South America's ABC countries--Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Like most other Latin countries, the ABCs were pulled on the economic torture rack during the 20th century between socially negligent capitalism and fiscally profligate populism. But today they lead a potent common market, Mercosur. (Chile is an associate member.) And while each has a leftist President--Chile's Michelle Bachelet is also a socialist--the ABCs are spelling a model, "pragmatic socialism," says Jerry Haar, an international-business professor at Florida International University in Miami and a co-author...
...accent can camouflage an awful lot of aggression. For most of the debate, Clinton was able to deflect the attacks, mostly by professing her fierce and limitless desire to reverse the depredations of the Bush Administration. But just when it was beginning to seem that her evasions were more potent than her opponents' assaults, she stumbled - badly, perhaps - on the question of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. She made the argument for it, then denied she favored it. "Unless I missed something," Edwards said as he nailed the coffin, "Senator Clinton said two different things in the course...