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...sustain solid growth, the sources of demand need to be rebalanced. The current recovery has been fueled by business investment more than any recovery since the 1950s. But investment cannot grow faster than GDP indefinitely. The second pillar of the recovery has been a rising trade surplus, fueled by strong growth in the U.S. and China and the lowest price-adjusted value of the yen since 1986. That, too, has limits...
...Republican in Trouble in Indiana Incumbent John Hostettler has solid conservative credentials, and he voted against the Iraq war. A recipe for reelection? Think again
...representatives of Democratic Party progressives who long ago soured on Harold Ford Jr.'s ever-more-conservative rhetoric and voting record. Ford's strategy has been to woo middle-of-the-road and conservative voters in Middle and East Tennessee while holding on to party-line Democrats and the solid bloc of black voters in home-town Memphis. But a resumption of the once-raging Ford-Herenton civil war could cost him, and so could simmering discontent among Democrats over his neutrality in the race to replace him in Congress. The venerable Nashville Tennessean, historically the voice of the state...
...Ward’s harmonica playing, as well as the presence of a full band (perhaps too full, with two drummers/percussionists) both live and on “Post-War,” didn’t unravel the intimacy of his words with overstuffed sound. While the solid backbeat dissolved the illusion that Ward’s songs were quiet confessions (except for the beautiful “I’ll Be Yr Bird,” which Ward performed in the encore before his band joined him), this did less to depersonalize the songs than...
...it’s the first time against Brown we’ve come out and executed in three years in the first quarter.”Although the Bears made a second-half push, pulling within two scores at 31-21, a failed onside kick ensured a solid Harvard win over last year’s Ivy League champs.GRAND OLE FLAGSIn Week One, Crimson penalties wiped out big plays.Against Holy Cross, Harvard senior linebacker Michael Berg sacked Crusaders quarterback Brian McSharry on a fourth and ten late in the game, only to have it called back...