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...Huskies have been on a slide, without a win in their last three competitions after starting out the season with three straight victories. Washington was unable to convert on 24 shots on goal in their last outing, a 1-1 tie with Cal State Fullerton...
Along Zurich?s Bahnhofstrasse, home to the nation?s biggest banks and priciest jewelers, nerves are fraying. These are tough times for the Swiss financial services sector, which accounts for more than 10% of the nation?s gross domestic product and approximately 6% of jobs. The long slide of world stock markets is taking its toll on profitability and forcing bankers to work particularly hard to calm their well-heeled clients. Swiss banks have also borne the brunt of a successful tax amnesty mounted earlier this year by Giulio Tremonti, Italy?s Finance Minister. Italians repatriated assets valued...
...this ever-percolating energy that made her such a joy to watch and, royal-snappers agree, to photograph. Some of the most famous pictures of Diana capture the Princess mid e-roll, or sitting stiffly beside her Prince and looking as if she wants nothing more than to slide under the table and escape. Others show a young mother, her head thrown back in laughter, bundling her children...
...passengers get aboard, then followed along in a truck to assist them once the balloon landed. When I was finished riding and crewing, all I wanted to do was go right back up for another ride. I was like a 3-year-old who had just got off the slide for the first time and was tugging on her mom's dress to let her try it again and again...
...terrorist group. (Rice declined to comment, but through a spokeswoman said she recalled no briefing at which Berger was present.) Other senior officials from both the Clinton and Bush administrations, however, say that Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda. In fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, "Response to al Qaeda: Roll back." Clarke's proposals called for the "breakup" of al-Qaeda cells and the arrest of their personnel. The financial support for its terrorist activities would be systematically attacked, its assets frozen, its funding from fake charities stopped. Nations...