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...after the Sept. 11 attacks, allowing CIA agents and U.S. Treasury officials to sift through the European financial messaging data collected by SWIFT, an international bank transfer consortium based in Belgium. When the arrangement came to light in 2006, it outraged civil liberties advocates and prompted the European Union to outline certain conditions under which the U.S. could access the information - the precursor to the arrangement just struck down by the Parliament...
...could see the euro gone in several years - or at least reduced to a currency only used by France, Germany and a few small nations keeping it alive," says Bob Hancké, an expert on European political economics at the London School of Economics. "The problem is that monetary union was never followed up by political union to coordinate budget and taxation practices and create euro-zone institutions and capacities to help member economies adapt to changes and turmoil. The result is member governments are left very few ways to deal with the current attack on Greek debt...
Harvard is coming off a win over No. 16 Union, in which sophomore forward Alex Killorn enjoyed a two-goal night, including a power play strike midway through the third period...
...It’s always great to beat a team like Union, ranked 16th nationally and tied for number one spot [in the conference],” captain Alex Biega said. “It gives you a little bit more confidence going into the game. You can grip your stick a little less going into the weekend...
...appointed to the seat last year, when Obama tapped former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar to join his Administration as Secretary of the Interior. A recent poll put Bennet 14 percentage points behind in a potential matchup with Republican candidate Jane Norton. (See pictures of Obama's State of the Union speech...