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...launch a final-year push for peace. Though there were skeptics, Bush was proposing something none of his predecessors had tried: a "paper only" deal that would be signed even with minimal on-the-ground concessions. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas were so politically weak, Bush negotiators thought, such a deal might be the only way they each could hold on to power...
...Prime Minister has been under pressure from NATO to add to the roughly 750 Spanish troops now deployed in Afghanistan, though at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest he maintained that current levels were sufficient. Among the largely pacificist Spanish population, support for military participation in combat is weak (over 50% of Spaniards support withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan altogether). But humanitarian and peace-keeping missions are another story: a 2005 poll by the Madrid-based Center for Sociological Research puts public support for those military efforts at more than 90%. The figure of a pregnant woman - "a woman...
Nowadays his daughter Donatella (Doni) Ratti, who became Ratti's president in 1996 and CEO in 2001, has to cope with different problems: namely, casual Friday morphing into every day (i.e., the banishment of the tie, which represents 25% of Ratti's earnings), the weak dollar and, most important, China. "It's become very difficult," says Donatella, 50. "People don't want to pay our prices. They compare them to China's." Such a comparison irks her, since China lacks Ratti's quality, quickness and creativity and isn't interested in small quantities...
...more at home in the booming economies of the Old Country than in the mortgage crisis-crippled markets of the States.WagamamaFor those who traveled to the Continent, it might seem that there’s nothing worse than having to convert prices that seem reasonable in Euros into weak American dollars. Britain makes the conversion easier by reducing it to a simple ratio, but there’s nothing more depressing than having to double amounts that already border on the expensive. The typical poor college student begrudgingly gnaws away for months at stacks of ten-cent ramen noodles; said...
...chiming guitar refrain and the infectious chorus make it the catchiest, most ecstatic tune R.E.M. has produced in the last decade. The album’s primary challenge is overcoming a sense of incompleteness. Many of the songs midway through the record suffer from a strong chorus with weak verses, or vice versa. “Hollow Man,” for instance, initially sounds like the pedestrian piano-driven ballads R.E.M. has produced all too often the last few years. But after a minute, the chorus explodes with drums and Mills’ chanting, and the track vastly improves...