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Watching her plane touch down and Boston slip into view before her freshman year, the Harvard field hockey team’s Shelley Maasdorp had no idea what to expect. Alone in a brand-new country with her family stranded halfway around the globe, Maasdorp had left behind all that she had known and loved and now only saw empty tarmac...
...Mark Latham's election-night function in outer-western Sydney had warmed up - Labor shadow immigration minister Stephen Smith was admitting the outlook was "Grim, with a capital G, Trouble, with a capital T." Confident right up to the close of polls, morose Labor supporters watched a fourth election slip away. Just two hours later, Latham conceded in a brief and despondent speech. "Tonight was not our night, not the night we were hoping for," he said...
Unfortunately for the Cheney, he made a perfectly understandable slip of the tongue and instead gave out the address www.factcheck.com—which, at the time of the debate, pointed to a humdrum ad-bloated education site. Even more unfortunately for the vice president, whoever controls the web server with the .com address is apparently both quick-thinking and discontent with the current administration—factcheck.com almost immediately became a redirect to www.georgesoros.com, site (unsurprisingly) of wealthy liberal financier George Soros. The current tagline on that site is “Why we must not re-elect George...
...protector of America's economic future, Greenspan sometimes acts to head off scenarios that are exceedingly remote but, in the worst case, could do extreme damage. Concerned last year that growth was not taking hold despite large tax cuts and worried over the slim possibility that the economy could slip into a deflationary spiral, he opted to cut short-term interest rates to 1%, their lowest level since 1958. "His policy was to move aggressively to pre-empt the chance that this small-probability event would ever take place," says Roger Ferguson, the Fed's vice chairman. "The reward...
...including a massive jump in ad spends and primo placement on nbc's reality-TV show The Apprentice. One result: Colgate-Palmolive's toothpaste business, anchored in the eponymous brand, is losing market share. Though still the category leader in the U.S. and globally, Colgate has seen U.S. share slip, from 35.3% at the beginning of 2003 to 33.3% during the second quarter of this year, according to Smith Barney stock research. In September, Colgate said its second-half profits would be lower than expected, in part because it was stepping up its own ad spending...