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...relationship is solid--there are lots of points of convergence," says Christopher McMullen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. But while Lula bonds with Bush over biofuels--Brazil is a global pioneer in that area--he's also huddling with Chávez over plans to turn South America into an integrated economic bloc along the lines of the European Union. Lula, in fact, is one of the few leaders both Bush and Chávez will listen to. "I joke with them and tell them their fight is very weird," Lula says, "because oil makes them so dependent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula's Way | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...lawmakers looked the other way as financial firms grew and morphed and created financial instruments no one understood well enough to oversee. When housing prices caught fire, the big financial players jumped in with borrowed money that they in turn lent out to home buyers who didn't have the means to keep up with the payments. Then the banks sliced and diced those loans and sold them as exotic new securities. All of that left everyone naked and exposed when the market crashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Men And a Bailout | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...hints at it: Lola, the gold digger, "had watched every single episode of Sex and the City at least, as she claimed, 'a hundred times.'" Lola arrives in Manhattan expecting--nay, demanding--a West Village apartment and a Mr. Big. Suffice it to say that the show doesn't turn out to be a very practical guide to real life and real estate in the big city. She should have read the book instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Text and the City | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Rams, and star wideout Austin Knowlin provides an enticing target.Also, who the hell is Towson?Prediction: Columbia 24, Towson 17PENN (0-1) AT LAFAYETTE (2-0)In Harvard’s matchup with Penn last season, an early game injury to Quakers running back Brad Blackmon seemed to turn a potentially tight matchup into a laugher. The Crimson did win easily, 23-7, but through no fault of Blackmon’s replacement, then-rookie Michael DiMaggio, who rushed for 83 yards and scored a touchdown.When the Quakers lose to Lafayette tomorrow, I suspect that once again DiMaggio, a potential...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: 2008 Race For The Ivy Title | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...partisans. They’re citizens genuinely concerned about the best way to run the country, and they find plausible answers coming from both political parties. When deciding on their vote, they’re loth to listen to demagoguery. When they err, they’re likely to turn away from those who belittle their error. To Huffington, it may be clear that the issues of the day “simply do not have two sides.†To that fraction of the electorate that has swung Republican in the last two presidential elections, things aren?...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Huffington Just Doesn't Get It Right | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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