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...another member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina. Lieberman and Graham said little - and what they did say was in praise of their "plain-speaking" companion McCain - but they enunciated their few words clearly. McCain's voice, by contrast, proved too soft to withstand the gusts of a blustery London day. Journalists who normally hover behind the banks of TV cameras and photographers during press conferences held on the private street outside 10 Downing Street could not hear his answers and were forced to maneuver crablike below the massed lenses to kneel...
...true. Anderson, the UBS economist, isn't overly pessimistic. But he sees China's export growth rate falling from about 25% a year to single-digits by mid-2008. "2008 will likely be the year manufacturers [are] finally forced to take a general hit on profitability," he says. A soft landing for factories might even be beneficial for the country in the long term, because it would weed out inefficient operators and boost China's productivity. A period of "creative destruction" is an inevitable part of any business cycle. China's economic policymakers can only hope that the creative aspects...
...eyes closed, he taps his foot to the beat. A moment later, Eyal Dechter ’09 strums the first chord on his acoustic guitar, leading into an original melody. Loren J. Bienvenu ’08 joins in on drums, completing the trio. Dechter’s soft tenor breaks into a love song. The band crescendos as they near the chorus, at which point Dechter sings the lyric that gave the song its name, “You are my fetish”. These three musicians form the band “Fetish Fetish...
...particularly prescient comment, it turned out—but also about how easy it would be to win the peace. “I certainly felt I was the lone wolf,” she said. “Nobody likes to be seen as soft on terrorism, soft on the bad guys.” For the Harvard academics who predicted the current turmoil in Iraq, the lack of accountability for the war’s intellectual supporters can be frustrating. No policy expert has a perfect track record, said Belfer Center expert Stephen M. Walt...
...throats—even from across the court—after a series of disputed calls early in the first set. A heatedly contested call cost Kumar the first set tiebreaker, but energized him to turn the heat up on Maravic, which he did with his soft touch at the net.“Ashwin’s so good at keeping pressure on his opponents because he keeps coming forward,” Rueb said.Harvard’s other win came at No. 2, where junior co-captain Chris Clayton stood up to the bullet-like serves...