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...year in subsidies. A recent report by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. estimates that "ending fuel subsidies worldwide would cut demand for transportation fuels by three million barrels a day" - about 3.4%. Meanwhile, the recent shortages have led at least one Beijing resident to rethink his personal fuel consumption. Stuck in line at a gas station Wednesday, Du Peng remarked, "Now I'll have to reconsider my plan to purchase...
When John is stuck in the broiling heat of extended spring training in Arizona, the boredom is palpable. And when he is cut from the roster of the Rookie-level Bristol Sox in June, the hurt is real: “I was frozen. Frozen with all of the emotions [that] were racing through my mind, body, and soul...
...there was nothing ill-conceived about the invasion of Iraq. These include Norman Podhoretz, the author of the recently published World War IV, a book about the rise and dangers of Islamofascism, and Charles Hill, an aide to former Secretary of State George Shultz, among others. While Giuliani has stuck closely with the White House on the course of the war in Iraq, he has not taken as hard a line on Iran as some of these advisers. Yet by leaning so heavily on them for advice, Giuliani could put the much unloved and widely discredited neoconservatives back on stage...
Clinton's character, her tendency to lawyer questions rather than answer them, is now front and center in this campaign, and that is appropriate. But I'm still stuck on the frenzy to judge Obama's worth by his willingness to attack Clinton. I spent part of the day of the debate watching a parade of talking heads expatiate endlessly on how dire was the need for Obama to go macho. It was "journalism" at its most useless. The ability to eviscerate your opponents is far less important in a President than the ability to defend yourself. In the nine...
Members of the Marine civil affairs unit working in Sinaa say they, too, are stuck in the same frustrating warp as the business owners. The success of their mission also depends on improving security and development in their zone. They've seen how fragile their hold is on the region and know what idleness breeds. A car bomb thought to be made there killed 40 people in Fallujah during a funeral procession in May, and a cell of bomb makers was cut down by Iraqi police in Sinaa as recently as August. They say they are in a race against...