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...feel really good. We're on an even playing field, and our folks are stoked. All over the country we've got an enormous amount of energy, people are organizing, and I just think the choice is very clear. The Supreme Court of the United States is at stake. After-school programs are at stake. Health care is at stake. Social Security is at stake. Jobs are at stake. The character of our country is at stake--whether we're going to have people who traffic in fear instead of real solutions...
...Western investors, long irked by the 20% limit on foreign ownership of Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly, were heartened last week when President Vladimir Putin gave Gazprom the go-ahead to acquire Rosneft, the government's last major oil company. The move ups the state's 38% stake in Gazprom to a controlling one in the newly formed Gazpromneft, and paves the way for foreign investors' billions to flow into Russia. But Putin apparently announced his plan before his ministers had agreed on its details: Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko cooled expectations, saying that liberalization "doesn't mean...
...answer to the political question, U.S. officials hope, will be the elections slated for January, since, if the Iraqis get to choose their own government, they'll have a stake in defending it. That's sound logic, although there are strong indicators that if the Iraqis get to choose their own government it may not look much like the one the U.S. is currently dealing with, and according to current indications of the platforms of a variety of Iraqi politicians may even be committed to asking the U.S. to leave...
...undergraduate counterparts weren’t demonstrating their Harvard affiliation quite so openly, but they were just as vocal about their opposition to President Bush’s policies. “We’re marching because we’re Americans, and our future is at stake,” said Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, a national organizer for the National Youth Institute and Peace Coalition...
...momentum carried over to the fourth frame, as Harvard jumped out to an 11-5 lead. But the Crimson attack could only muster one kill over the next 14 points, allowing the Horned Frogs to wipe away the deficit and stake to a four-point lead of their own, 17-13. Harvard stayed with TCU the rest of the way, but could never chip away at the lead, falling by the same margin...