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...China's estimated economic growth last year 4 Current rank of China among the world's largest economies, surpassing France and Britain, but still trailing the U.S., Japan and Germany...
...know what really grinds my gears? I have written this whole semester about things that irritate me, yet I have only had enough space to expose a miniscule fraction of the stupid shenanigans that are annoying at best and at worst stink up our campus reputation like the rank vents surrounding the Garage on Mount Auburn Street. Thus I offer this final column of the semester as an airing of the choicest 10 pieces of dirty laundry from the past year that I have yet to cover. Think of this “can’t stand it?...
...Congressman John Boehner as a replacement, while younger conservatives are talking up Indiana's Mike Pence. Also considered likely to run are Arizona's John Shadegg and Jerry Lewis of California, who has a formidable power base by virtue of his perch as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. As rank-and-file Republicans fight about who will lead them, it will be with an eye over their shoulder to see where the Abramoff investigation is going. Whereas they once had an almost blind faith in the judgment and invincibility of their leaders, "for the first time," says a Republican lawmaker...
...compiled more than a dozen CDs. "In an instant, music can uplift our soul. It awakens within us the spirit of prayer, compassion and love," he writes. "It clears our minds and has been known to make us smarter." Rauscher is both bemused and sometimes amused by such rank commercialization. "At least somebody managed to make money out of it," she says. But she bristles at the way her findings are misrepresented. "Nobody ever said listening to Mozart makes you smarter," she complains, pointing out that her research showed only a temporary and limited improvement in the student's spatial...
...SADDAM CALLS HIS TORTURERS 'RANK AMATEURS' Fears for the Future of Torture in Post-Saddam Iraq." --Fake news headline from BOROWITZREPORT.COM...