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...unless there is a separate smoking room. Bar and restaurant owners in Bulgaria - where nearly 40% of the population smokes - struggled to comply with a similar ban that came into force on Jan. 1, requiring certain tables to be reserved for nonsmokers. Last-Ditch Effort UKRAINE Viktor Yanukovych, the runner-up in the Dec. 26 re-run of the presidential election, filed a final appeal against the result. According to the Central Electoral Commission, Yanukovych lost to opposition leader Viktor Yuschenko by more than 2 million votes. The court has already rejected several appeals from Yanukovych over...
...source of delight--which was a finding of a TIME poll on happiness conducted last month. When asked, "What one thing in life has brought you the greatest happiness?", 35% said it was their children or grandchildren or both. (Spouse was far behind at just 9%, and religion a runner-up at 17%.) The discrepancy with the study of Texas women points up one of the key debates in happiness research: Which kind of information is more meaningful--global reports of well-being ("My life is happy, and my children are my greatest joy") or more specific data on enjoyment...
...Kennedy ’40’s career at Harvard involved many a ‘romantic’ encounter—especially at the Spee, but probably plenty of other locations. Al Gore ’69, before the judge’s panel determined him the runner-up in the 2000 election, shared a freshman year dorm—and allegedly a first joint—with roommate Tommy Lee Jones. And of course, there is our current president and president-elect, the dear George W. Bush, Harvard Business School Class of 1975. True...
Already, potential candidates for 2008 are being handicapped. Kerry could argue that he deserves another chance, but not since they renominated Adlai Stevenson in 1956 have the Democrats thought--mistakenly, in Stevenson's case--that they could make a winner out of the previous election's runner-up. Early attention will be focused squarely on New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. "If she wants to run, she will completely dominate the field," predicts Podesta, who admits, as a veteran of the Clinton White House, that he may not be totally objective. "In terms of fund raising, charisma, ideas and positioning...
...Crimson’s twin runner-up finishes give the team a sizable lead in the standings for the Fowle Trophy. The award is based on team performances in six championship regattas, of which this weekend’s men’s and women’s competitions were...