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...leader Chen Shui-bian's rise to political prominence was due to his steely competence. This was a man, his smug eagerness and wire-frame spectacles seemed to say, who could solve Taiwan's problems as easily as he performed differential calculus. He never actually wore a slide rule in his pocket, but we knew it was there, in spirit at least, close to his heart. Two years and a few gdp contractions later, that aura of can-do confidence has been chipped away and we are left wondering, why, exactly, did voters grant his dpp a solid legislative...
With the victory, Harvard avoided a three-game slide and will look to ride that momentum into its Ivy League opener against Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon...
With such exquisite attention to detail, Soderbergh makes the actors’ jobs almost too easy. The mood is firmly set before his actors grace the screen, and they seem to effortlessly slide into their roles, feeding off the director’s rhythms. Clooney riffs on his rugged, cocky Out of Sight character, but reigns in his persona to match the film’s ambience, and lends a sentimentality to Ocean’s reasons for pulling the job. Danny wants to bring down Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), the owner of all three casinos, because he?...
...Germany's Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung offered a more sobering view. "Afghanistan's political reorganization poses the kind of question that ? has no good answers, only ones that pose greater or lesser degrees of evil," an editorial concludes. For example, without an international security force the country would quickly slide back into bloody civil war, but there's no "politically acceptable and militarily effective" force available...
...Dynegy got into the Enron deal for three reasons. The first - that Enron stock was dirt cheap - went sour when Enron's stock continued to slide even faster than Dynegy's, but the renegotiations looked likely to rectify that. The other two were about structure - Dynegy wanted to take over as the energy-trading honcho by folding its own trading operation into Enron's powerhouse, and it wanted to beef up its real energy-production assets by acquiring Enron subsidiary Northern Natural Gas, a pipeline network that runs from the upper Midwest down to Texas...