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...sports, in baseball there are no fixed time parameters and therefore no temporal obstacles for losing teams staging a comeback at the threshold of defeat. The season spans six months, with over 160 contests for each team, a time over which lengthy winning streaks can be gradually erased by tepid performance midsummer...
...martial call. Chavez plans to seek another referendum on constitutional amendments such as abolishing term-limits before his current term ends in 2012. A big part of his argument to his countrymen will be that only he can stand up to Washington and its Latin American proxies. Venezuelans' tepid response to his Sunday tirade indicates that he faces an uphill battle to remain in office unless he starts resolving their domestic woes...
...recognizes the challenges ahead. During his inauguration speech, the man nicknamed "The Bulldozer" said, "Economic revival is our most urgent task." After recording GDP growth of 5% last year - somewhat tepid by Korean standards - forecasts for 2008 call for the country's 2008 GDP growth to decline to around 4% as the U.S. battles a recession and demand for Korean exports eases globally. In February South Korea is expected to post its third straight monthly trade deficit - the first time that's happened in more than five years - as high oil prices and declining exports continue to bite. "The external...
...members of Congress may be seen regularly strolling through security brashly waving their umbrellas. Last March, an aide to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) provoked an uproar when he accidentally tried to bring a pistol into a Senate office building. Sadly, the national media has taken a far more tepid interest in the scores of umbrellas that enter the building each...
...catch up on my journals, thank you very much, or maybe write an essay for The New Yorker. From Nassau.The actual business of running Harvard is frustratingly tedious. The Faculty figured out as much last spring, when several hours—hours!—of tepid discussion preceded the passage of Harvard’s latest undergraduate curriculum. It’s much more fun, after all, to nab a quote in the paper when one’s colleagues claw each other’s eyes out over something trivial. What fun it was when anthropologist J. Lorand...