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...Republican-led Congress has acted like a latter-day Emperor Nero, fiddling with the issues of same-sex marriage, abortion and flag burning while the Middle East is a conflagration, the global climate overheats and our health-care system crashes and burns. The slim majority that the Democrats have in both houses of Congress as a result of the midterm elections is not a mandate but a challenge to both major parties to work cooperatively to solve the nation's foreign and domestic problems...
...Democrats won majorities in both the House and Senate, but with slim margins. The Republicans are still in pretty good shape. A single election should not make Republicans too downcast or Democrats too gleeful...
...Sync, aka Samsung SGH-a707, is pretty much RAZR slim. It's got a respectable talk-time battery life of up to four hours and a gorgeous, 2.5-in. LCD screen. Since it connects to Cingular's new highspeed data network, it can download files at broadband speed. Although the network is key to much of Cingular's ambitions, it is not required to access music, however. The Sync is so-named because you load music from your PC. Any MP3 or unprotected WMA files will transfer, but so will subscription downloads from Rhapsody, Napster, AOL and MTV Urge...
...even a dynamo like Ghosn, successfully run two carmakers? He could keep his hands full with Renault alone. Like other European carmakers, Renault is grappling with high labor costs, slim profit margins and surging competition on its home turf from Toyota. Yet Ghosn, characteristically, has set ambitious goals for Renault, aiming to add new models, lift profit margins to 6% in 2009, from 2.5% today, and sell an additional 800,000 cars a year. "Everybody knows what I mean by commitment," he says, "and I'm very serious about that...
...score. When freshman Doug Rogers’ shot from the top of the zone was deflected by Fisher, junior Jon Pelle was able to net the rebound, knotting the score at 2.As the third period opened, the Crimson played with renewed intensity as it attempted to protect its slim lead 3-2, keeping the Quinnipiac forwards in check with some heavy hitting on the defensive end.“I think some of the desperation that we’ve been looking for showed up in the second half of the game, blocking shots and getting pucks...