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This past Saturday night, Boston police broke up an altercation at 1050 Tremont St. when two women punched, kicked, spat on, and beat a man with their handbags after he did not hold the elevator door for them, according to an article on the Boston Herald's website...
...Army chief General David Richards countered with a swipe against "hugely expensive equipment" of the kind procured for navy use. The spat highlighted a fundamental problem for defense planners: nobody knows where future conflicts will erupt or what kinds of resources they will demand. Governments set the aspirations of their military according to best guesses. "We've got to think through much more carefully whether Britain should get involved in a foreign conflict, and if so, how to cope with the consequences," said David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader campaigning to win the upcoming parliamentary elections. "Britain will have...
...accused Dems of "fanning the flames" by trying to use the threats as a "political weapon." And certainly Democrats haven't been shy about raising funds from the other side's ugly moments, like when Tea Party protesters hurled racial epithets against civil-rights legend Representative John Lewis, spat at other African-American members and called Representative Barney Frank, one of a handful of openly gay Congressmen, a "f_____." "Members have had death threats," read a fundraising missive from Mitch Stewart, the head of Organizing for America, an offshoot of President Obama's campaign website. "Democratic offices have been vandalized...
...effect of this spat has been to push the euro to a four-week low against the dollar as investors fret over the uncertain prospect of support for Greece. The euro closed on Tuesday at $1.35, down from a high of $1.51 in November. "The leaders are hardening positions but not for a clearly thought-out purpose," says Fredrik Erixon, director of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy. "It looks more like a chicken farm than anything else...
...Containing the Fallout To be sure, the spat with google is an embarrassment for China. It's a fight that "does not exactly promote the image of China as a forward-looking, technologically sophisticated country," according to one U.S. lawyer based in Beijing, echoing a common sentiment. But at the same time, Chinese authorities must be hoping that the dispute can be contained. After all, with a mere 2% of its $26 billion in revenue derived from China's search business, Google is one of the few multinationals that can take a principled stand...