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...mortgages on homes in Miami and Detroit are held by banks from Switzerland to China. So, how much does the U.S. really matter? "If the world economy were a train, we'd now have a greater number of engines pulling that train," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's Equity Research. "However, the biggest engine is still the U.S., and as a result, the speed of that train depends...
Those attacks became a standard feature of Thompson's campaign in the closing days before the primary. The Huckabee campaign had no solution for Thompson, who barely polled within striking distance of second place and was seen by some as a foil for McCain, with whom he is friends. "Fred Thompson, John McCain's lapdog, came down here and definitely hurt the Huckabee vote, no doubt about that," said former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley, who chaired the Huckabee campaign here, after the loss...
...Other conflicts are less sexy - but remain numerous. Critics argue such conflicting Sarkozy policies and waffling on positions suggest he's less the intrepid breaker of taboos, and more the standard politician than he likes to suggest. Indeed, though troubled by Sarkozy's venture into religion, Lévy suspects it was "calculated as a nod to Catholic (voters), before quickly making another, without doubt, towards the Jews, Free Masons, and Muslims". But unlike other contradictions, Lévy believes Sarkozy's professions of faith are particularly lamentable, since they "make no sense at all coming from the mouth...
...When the Faculty toppled former university President Lawrence H. Summers, scores of professors who normally traffic in the obscure got to see their names in print. All this is much more rewarding than actually running the place. Isn’t that what administrators are for?Our well-endowed standard-bearers have come out swinging against the torrential tedium that’s threatened Harvard since Larry imploded in 2006. Late last year, Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 announced that his fiefdom, for decades known as the Kennedy School of Government, would henceforth be dubbed the Harvard...
...economy's woes at all is a relatively new development. As recently as October, in their debate in Dearborn, Mich., the candidates were content to point to positive job-growth numbers and downplay any problems as being the effect of local conditions that could be solved with the standard-issue G.O.P. economic prescriptions of tax cuts and less regulation...