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...changing the climate in Africa and Asia, just as the soaring emissions of China are affecting America's climate. The results are already deadly, causing failed crops in Africa, killer heat waves in Europe, extreme droughts in the U.S. southwest, and more. And much worse is to come unless...
...management in the real estate development project, and had provided capital for investment in a limited partnership agreement. Accordingly, the papers argue that as a limited partner, Harvard should be protected by the Massachusetts Limited Partnership Act, which “shields limited partners from liability for partnership obligations unless they participate in control of the business.” But Harvard has argued in the court papers that the Criminal Usury Act does not apply to the University because the statute is “directed at lenders and there is no suggestion that it was intended to encompass...
...because the bank has not officially been declared insolvent, despite its reliance on an approximate $47 billion bail out made by the Bank of England in September, when Northern Rock revealed its financial difficulties. "The directors need to be aware that they are not going to get the votes unless they are going to need unless they bring forward a fair deal," Ashby says." Shareholders will not simply roll over." Small shareholders hold around 25% of Northern Rock but, straw polls aside, they are not a unified body...
...Rudd's public-relations people took polls and held focus groups and told him what those things appeared to be: vision and hope for the future. Former P.M. Keating thought Rudd was too poll-driven, a captive of advisors who "won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side to get out on." But the polling helped Rudd focus, relentlessly, on offering voters what they yearned for: a government as conservative as Howard's, only with a fresher face and a more inclusive smile. A government that...
...first two items are largely symbolic. Though Howard kept Australia outside the Kyoto regime, it has already met its emissions targets. And on the question of a post-2012 successor treaty to Kyoto, Rudd in mid-campaign abruptly took the Howard position: no ratification of Kyoto II unless it requires China and India to limit their carbon emissions. On Iraq, Rudd has moderated Labor's earlier "immediate pull-out" policy. He says he will begin negotiations with the U.S. and Iraq on a staged withdrawal of 500 combat troops - one-third of the total deployment there - to take place over...