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...With its slip-sliding Jamaicans and Monaco's Prince Albert occasionally in a can, bobsleigh, as Olympianados call it, has long seemed a silly sport. There's always some wacky thing going on, like the track melting in Calgary or summer-sports stars like hurdler Edwin Moses trying to hitch a ride to a medal. This year was going to be different. This year, since women would be competing for the first time and since some of the best women sliders were from the U.S., Americans would be engaged by a fair, clean and friendly competition. Congenial. Sweet...
...Nikkei could slip below the Dow Jones industrial average for the first time in 44 years--a historic crossroads that drives home just how brutal Japan's 12-year bear market has been and how thoroughly economies can change. At the Nikkei peak the Dow was at just 2,753, trailing its Pacific rival by an astounding 36,163 points. Now, as the Nikkei sheds fur like a sheepdog in spring, the unthinkable is coming to pass: parity. The two trade near...
...insistence that the president's brother may be freezing a tax cut of his own, but he's not raising taxes. When pressed on this, George W. and his team argue that states play by different financial rules. They have to balance their budgets every year. The only slip so far has been by new Republican National Committee chairman Marc Racicot who when pushed on whether Jeb was raising taxes told reporters, "I think that argument could be made, yes." Eight hours later, Racicot issued a statement saying he did not believe Jeb had raised taxes...
...months. But Sherzai and the other warlords running Afghanistan need the support of the locals too. "Gul Agha will be thinking of the future," a former Talib told TIME. "When America goes, he will still be here." Sherzai was no doubt thinking of the future when he let Turabi slip over the border...
When public confidence in the company—and Enron’s stock prices—began to slip, Enron was forced to cut its ties with LJM and take a $1 billion write...