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...China. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, at a press conference last week, suggested the two Washington politicians could save U.S. taxpayers the airfare. There was not going to be any major, one-off revaluation this year. China, said Wen, would allow the yuan to float within a relatively tight band, as it has done since a 2% upward adjustment last year. Too bad, Graham responded before he left Washington. He has, he insisted, a "veto-proof" majority in support of the bill in the Senate...
...automotive sector at the General Confederation of Labor, France's labor union, is pleased that the plan has avoided firings. But he would also like to see "significant numbers of new workers" hired, "to allow us to produce so many new cars at higher quality standards within the tight deadlines the plan requires...
...week’s Game Three against St. Lawrence, an energetic first period presaged success in the rest of the game. “It was hard to play catch-up all night,” said Big Green captain Mike Ouellette, “when we expected a tight, hard-fought game.” The Crimson piled it on in the second period, riding the momentum from the two-goal opening period to tally three early scores, including a shorthander by junior Steve Mandes, in the initial 5:16. Junior Kevin Du added another tally as the clock...
...received by Cambridge residents over the weekend, plastic garbage bags will be allowed on the streets in the morning, but only before the 7 a.m. collection time. Cantabrigians who want to put their trash out the night before collection day will have to do so in garbage containers with tight-fitting lockable lids. Even in these containers, the trash will only be allowed out on the streets after 6 p.m. the night before collection. Every Cambridge resident received a postcard in the mail detailing the new regulations and including a coupon for a $12 sealable trash can, redeemable at five...
...Hundred Small Saddams Sunni-dominated Kurdistan is a tolerant refuge for religious minorities, who are free to worship as they please, these groups say. But the ruling parties keep tight rein over the Muslim religious establishment through the Ministry of Awqaf, an institution that was created by Iraq's British overlords in the 1920s to control mosques, mullahs and what gets said in Friday sermons. The Baathists maintained the Awqaf as a useful tool of coercion, but it was disbanded by the American-appointed Governing Council in 2003 and forbidden by Iraq's new constitution. Yet Ministries of Awqaf still...