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This season you faced windstorms, rocks, weak skis. Will your luck change? Roks, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA The results have been pretty poor this season. But when I'm at speed and not making mistakes, I'm much, much faster than the rest of the world right...
...this September and kept right on soaring. Fueled by record prices for Canadian commodities, a surge in foreign investment and anxiety over the subprime-mortgage meltdown, the loonie broke the $1.10 barrier in early November. It has since settled close to parity. "The U.S. dollar is going to stay weak against major currencies for a while," says Dan Katzive, director of currency strategy at Credit Suisse in New York City...
...illegal immigrants and instate tuition for illegal immigrants? at a time when they weren't issues on the national scene." As for why the endorsement came now, Tancredo admitted he hoped to hurt the chances of rivals Mike Huckabee and John McCain - both of whom he views as weak on immigration. "It was the rise of Huckabee in Iowa, that's what really was disconcerting, and McCain in New Hampshire." (The McCain campaign declined comment, while Huckabee spokeswoman Charmaine Yoest replied: "The governor has a really strong and tough stand on immigration... and in the days ahead we're looking...
...years it has printed some 50 million books; some publishers churn out that many in a year. But Amity focuses on one title - the Bible - and primarily one market, China. It is the largest printer of Christian literature in the officially atheist country, where freedom of religion remains weak; up until 1979, when Deng Xiaoping began undoing the social strictures of the Mao Zedong era, the mere possession of a Bible could get a person into serious trouble...
...German/Romanian actress. The language barrier may also account for the usually exceptional Swiss actor Bruno Ganz’s flat depiction. “Youth Without Youth,” an ambitious film, falls short of success. Coppola tries to compensate for the lack of a coherent storyline and weak performances with grand dramatic music and cinematography, but nothing can mask the disappointing shape of the film. —Staff writer Michelle L. Cronin can be reached at mlcronin@fas.harvard.edu...