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...Ignatieff's chief rival is also his old friend. Former Ontario New Democratic Party premier Bob Rae is as attractive a candidate for the party's moderate center-left wing as Ignatieff is to many former Martin supporters on the conservative side of the party. Ironically, Rae and Ignatieff have much in common in addition to their comparable intellectual abilities. Rae's father was also an eminent diplomat who had postings in Washington, Geneva, New York and the Hague. Rae, 58, and Ignatieff were roommates at the University of Toronto, but while Ignatieff went on to academia and writing...
...term as premier is his biggest albatross. Taking power on the cusp of a debilitating recession, Rae administered policies that alienated both sides of the political spectrum. His government borrowed to sustain a mounting deficit, and Rae won the enmity of his own NDP brethren with austere legislation freezing public-sector wages and forcing public servants to take an extra 10 days off each year without pay. Rae has attempted to shed his image as an inept manager, telling the Economic Club of Toronto early in the campaign that balanced budgets, competitive corporate taxes and lower individual income taxes...
...Chinese Premier Hu Jintao began his four-day visit to India -the first by a Chinese head of state in more than a decade - there was plenty of talk about the good ties between the two countries, about the free trade agreement they hope to sign and about the fact that 2006 is "India-China Friendship Year." But what you won't hear as much about this week, at least not officially, are the tensions that remain between Beijing and New Delhi...
That's the last thing the U.S. needs. As the nation's premier guardian of public health, the CDC is responsible for researching, tracking and counteracting newly emerging infectious diseases like West Nile and SARS. Doctors rely on it to develop unbiased recommendations on a wide range of medical issues from when to vaccinate children to how best to battle obesity. It also directs funds to individual state and local public agencies to shore up their own community health efforts...
...neither she nor her top editors has time to think about the possibility of failure.The group had their first photo shoot, complete with professional models and photographers, at New York’s landmark Chelsea Hotel in mid-October, and is planning another in early December for its premier issue, set to come out in New York in early February.Still three months removed from that publication date, Matthews and company have already assembled about three-quarters of the content for the first issue and are preparing for their second.The idea for the magazine surfaced nearly two years ago, when Matthews...