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...Dartmouth star Alex Barnett followed at the other end with a tough jumper, but Miller quickly responded with two on a turnaround fall-away on the baseline. By that point, Miller’s teammates knew he was hot—on the next time down the floor, Lin found his center open under the basket for an easy...
...beyond tougher rhetoric, is the new Administration really likely to get tough with China on trade, as so many union supporters of Obama hope? Unlikely. In fact, it's hard to think of anything business and investors on both sides of the Pacific would welcome less right now than a U.S.-China trade rumble. Both countries are in the midst of serious economic pain, which trade tensions would only worsen. There are enough comparisons with the Great Depression out there already without dredging up the memory of Smoot-Hawley, the 1930 legislation in the U.S. that put a tariff...
That reluctance is not necessarily for the reason often cited when U.S.-China trade issues come up. A frequent assertion by critics of U.S. trade policy is that Washington can't afford to get tough with China on trade because Beijing buys so much U.S. Treasury debt. Washington can't even say "Boo" to the Chinese, this argument goes, without risking that China would take its money and go home, driving U.S. interest rates up in the process...
...campaign had acquired. He fended off repeated questions about the second swearing-in of the President, which had only been open to a few journalists and no photographers or video or audio equipment. And he did his best to defend the new Administration against charges of violating its own tough new ethics guidelines by appointing two former lobbyists as high-ranking agency deputies, one at the Pentagon and another at Health and Human Services...
...further to the right. That option could even see him offer Barak the job of defense minister again. The country's most decorated soldier, Barak allowed himself to be photographed often during the Gaza campaign in a black leather bomber jacket, poring over battle maps with his generals. This tough guy image sits well with Israelis, even if they were displeased that the Gaza war ended without Hamas' surrender. With Labor and Livni's Kadima on board, it may be possible for Netanyahu to be more successful in selling a peace accord to a wary Israeli public than a center...