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...still has analysts doing double takes. Since President Néstor Kirchner was elected in 2003, annual growth has averaged 9%, the best in Latin America. Argentina has parlayed a cheaper but stable peso into record export earnings. "Argentina," crows Central Bank president Martín Redrado, "is enjoying its most solid macroeconomic context of the past 30 years." In Brazil, Lula's election (and 2006 re-election) did not render the region's largest economy a leftist basket case. Instead, inflation has fallen from 12.5% in 2002 to less than 4% today. Brazil's real has climbed 56% against...
...innovative police commissioner William Bratton in 1996 after Bratton seemed to like the media spotlight too much for Giuliani's taste. But Kerik was loyal above all and ruled the sometimes lawless corrections operations with an iron fist. In 2000 Giuliani handed Kerik the 100-year-old solid-gold badge and named him New York's 40th commissioner of police...
...to—he’s seen his fair share of impressive balancing acts during his 14 years at Harvard.“He’s a scholarly kid,” Murphy says of Van Niel. “He’s not just a solid student, he’s a terrific football player—which the world is finally getting a chance to see—and he does something else really well.”As the Crimson gets set for the first Game with two undefeated Ivy teams in 39 years...
...meter stretch, I got up into the top five on a little burst down the downhill,” he said. “Looking back, I would have liked to have stayed in the top 10 a little longer...But all things considered, it was a good solid race.”Three more Crimson runners finished bunched behind Holmquest, led by freshman Dan Chenoweth, who was the second-fastest freshman in the race. Chenoweth finished in 30:54.35, in 34th place and just ahead of senior Andrew Lipkin, who wrapped up his career by finishing 37th...
...Pangilinan said. Harvard is set to swim another Ivy League meet on the road against Columbia next Saturday. The Lions will certainly prove to be a challenge for the Crimson, as they out-swam Yale, 173-127, on Saturday. Still, Harvard expects another victory. “Columbia is solid,” Pangilinan said. “It will be good to go down there. But I definitely think we will come...