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...vocal critics; he blamed it for causing a national economic "catastrophe" and spurned its help when he started rebuilding Argentina's shattered economy in 2003. It probably helped that shortly before the G-20 announcement, the IMF gave the world a peek at its new, softer and more generous self, by agreeing to give Mexico a credit line of up to $40 billion. Mexico isn't in the same sort of crisis that has driven it to the IMF several times in the past 30 years, but it wanted backup financing agreed just in case. Tellingly, the IMF extended...
...states to write the doctrine into statute, without imposing the attendant obligation to flee for safety. Many have done so, including Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and South Dakota. In 2007, Texas took things a step farther, and expanded its law to protect shooters who act in self-defense or act to stop certain crimes anywhere the shooter has a legal right to be - such as at work, in his car or the like...
Exactly. I didn't really feel any sense of kinship with Eric. Obviously what Dylan did was wrong, but I could identify with a lot of the things he was going through. I was a teenager too. I remember wallowing in my own self-pity...
Since companies aren't likely to stop paying ransoms, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday told reporters that the State Department was working with shipping and insurance companies to "address gaps in their self-defense measures," in the hope that they can avoid being seized in the first place. Clinton's strategy announcement came days after U.S. Navy SEAL snipers killed three pirates who were holding Richard Phillips, the captain of the container vessel Maersk Alabama - the first U.S.-flagged ship to be seized off Somalia. The last-resort military rescue plan was put into action after ransom negotiations had broken down...
...recent study conducted by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions suggests that the widespread availability of Internet gambling has not led to an increase in the number of people addicted to gambling. The study actually found that gamblers who visit gaming Web sites are more likely to self-regulate their betting behavior based on their pattern of wins and losses. Those who are addicted to gambling do not exhibit such control. The study began in February 2005 and observed 3,445 subscribers to BWIN, an Austria-based gaming Web site. The participants’ poker outcomes were analyzed over...