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...coalition led by his Fianna Fáil party has seen soaring economic growth, a doubling of national income and a plunge in the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.2%. "How do you do it, Bertie?" asked a jealous and frankly incredulous Tony Blair last October. The British premier, who came to power a month before Ahern and will soon step down, unmourned by many who once supported him, was closeted with his Irish counterpart in Scotland, hammering out the final details of the St. Andrews Agreement on Northern Ireland, when Ahern's press secretary delivered the results...
...move to the next stage of the deal - building a brand-new arena for the 115-year-old team. "Liverpool has a history that's at the very top," says Hicks, who pledges to "make sure we keep a great thing going great." Right now, in sports, the English Premier League is just about the definition of a great thing. Backed by wealthy investors like Hicks, and tapping into a huge fan base all over the world, Premier League clubs have struck gold. Teams in English football's top flight notched up around $2.5 billion in revenue last season, almost...
...melted considerably, but the water remains cold.' WANG YI, China's ambassador to Japan, on relations between the two countries following talks between Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo April 11 and 12. Wen's trip marked the first diplomatic visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years
...Rudd was sometimes based in Canberra and could not have "spent seven or eight years representing Australian embassies overseas," as he told one interviewer. Rudd left the foreign service to work in Queensland politics as a Labor adviser. He was that state's top bureaucrat when Wayne Goss was Premier. After he failed in his attempt to enter federal politics at the 1996 election, he worked as a China consultant for management firm KPMG-which in Rudd's telling gives him credentials "running a business...
...first crack at GP2, the training ground for Formula One, Hamilton dominated the 2006 season. And hitting the world's premier driving circuit hasn't reduced his momentum - or his appetite for risky maneuvers. Hamilton is "not worried about showing what he's used to doing just because it's Formula One," says Hill...