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...question, but Gore answered it when he said, "If the crib is on fire, you save the baby!" American democracy is the baby, and the future of the free world is at stake. A somewhat cooler globe will be uninhabitable if the values we cherish are on fire...
...unlike so many others, Barack Obama had the ability to recognize the foolishness of invading Iraq before the war began, and he was willing to stake his political future on defending that belief. He had the foresight to predict in October 2002 that “even a successful war against Iraq [would] require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.” He demonstrated the sincerity and forward thinking that will be crucial to restoring our international credibility...
...minutes, the kids, divided into teams, compete to win points by solving math problems, with Abdullah acting as a combination game-show host and math coach. There are giggles and cheers and plenty of correct answers, but everyone in the room knows the fate of the school is at stake...
...house ticketing system, through which it can sell up to 10% of its inventory, is already the third largest, and taking the rest inside would make it a power. But Ticketmaster isn't waiting to be cut out of the business. In May, its parent company significantly increased its stake in Front Line Management, an agency that represents Christina Aguilera, Jimmy Buffett and Aerosmith--links that it could leverage for its concert-tour business...
...which it will allow the RMB to trade against the dollar. Beijing also raised interest rates and increased the amount of capital banks need to keep in reserve - both moves intended to slow China's breakneck economy. On Monday, Beijing also announced it was taking a 10 percent stake in the Blackstone Group, the big U.S. private equity firm that is about to go public on the New York Stock exchange, indicating that Beijing would like to earn a slightly better return on at least some of its $1.2 trillion (and climbing) in foreign exchange reserves. But at $3 billion...