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Bush, who has lacked a sense of command in public for some weeks now, looked a little steadier than his aides, but the steely hang-the-guilty determination he reserves for terrorists and other evildoers was missing when it came to discussing the possible leakers in his midst. Asked about...
Most alarming, though, is the rising fatality rate. During SARS' international onset some two months ago, when doctors had only a handful of cases to examine, the mortality rate was thought to be about 5%?scary, but not exactly on the scale of Ebola. What's more, those most at...
It's one thing to be attacked by Jack Welch and quite another to be savaged by the European Court of First Instance. That's what Mario Monti, the E.U.'s competition Commissioner, is discovering. Monti famously withstood pressure from Welch, the former General Electric chairman, when the E.U. last...
Many Harvard students debate the existence of a supreme being. But one international fraternity which includes 43 Harvard students as active members wants to skip the debate and ensure that its ranks are free of nonbelievers. The Sigma Chi Fraternity requires prospective members to sign a form affirming their belief...
Real estate has been a life preserver for the whole economy. With $8 trillion lost in the stock market in the past few years, steady gains in housing--and easy terms for borrowing against those gains--has kept the economy from falling hard. Typically, housing-related activity accounts for $1.40...