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There's the Argentine rub. Short-term, the country is booming; long-term, it's considered high risk. "There is still a sensation of uncertainty," says former Finance Under Secretary Miguel Kiguel, "a perception that we don't have clear long-term rules." FDI fell to just above 2% of Argentina's $212 billion gross domestic product in 2006, thanks to lingering doubts about creditworthiness that President-elect Fernández will have to confront...
...lives for Pakistan, and he wants to sell it to the Americans." Like many Pakistanis, Qazi figures the U.S. wants Musharraf in power no matter what he does. There are even growing rumbles of discontent within the Pakistani military; some officers worry that increasing public anger at Musharraf may rub off on them. "Over the last few months, morale has folded like a tent," says retired Lieut. General Talat Masood. "[The troops] are not trained for this insurgency, they don't have the equipment, and they don't have the support of the populace...
...Berlin's ties with Washington have improved markedly since Merkel replaced Schroeder at the Chancellery, in part because of Merkel and Sauer's personal enthusiasm for the U.S. While some Germans winced at photographs of George W. Bush giving Merkel a neck rub during the G8 meeting in St. Petersburg in 2006, German papers dubbed the gesture a "love attack" - a demonstration of Bush's reciprocal affection for the German Chancellor...
...election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall in Sydney's eastern suburbs, he and the Labor Party are hoping some of the old magic might rub off on the local candidate. "Let's go," he says...
...because the library’s always open, but it gets frustrating,” she said. “My roommate’s been studying in the laundry room.” Students from warmer climates were also caught unprepared for the cold. “I rub my hands together until I fall asleep or I go to the bathroom to run hot water on my hands to warm them up,” said Hetty A. O. Afari ’11, who is from Ghana. “It was not a pleasant experience...