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...region. Part of it was disappointment with Clinton, whose presidency seemed a coastal combination of Ivy League intellectualizing and Hollywood glitz. Clinton's decidedly humid empathy, his lack of personal discipline, didn't seem very Western, either. The primacy of the national Democratic Party--the party that was weak on national defense but strong on racial preferences, gun control and trade unions--proved a significant drag on Rocky Mountain Democrats running for local office. And so did the excesses of the more extreme environmental groups. "The Democrats came to be identified with a top-down, centralized approach to open-space...
...sold in the U.S., down from 25.5% in 1993. Yet there are significant regional differences. Jonathan Anderson, chief economist for Asia at Swiss bank UBS, says Singapore, Malaysia and Japan remain more vulnerable if tapped-out Americans start to shop less, given that their own domestic spending is relatively weak; by contrast, China's consumption is rising steadily, propelled partly by housing demand. He points out that China wasn't hit as badly as other Asian countries by the U.S. downturn in 2001, and that it's in a stronger position now to weather a slowdown...
...coffee, so there was no particular reason to think that they would know how to make a good cup of java. Thing is, if anything, the tea in those "genuinely local shops" was worse than the coffee. You could either take your tea "as it comes," which meant weak as dishwater. Or you could take it strong - which was, it was thought, how the working class took their cuppa, and hence how slumming members of the bourgeoisie such as George Orwell insisted on having it. In that case, you put one teaspoonful of leaves into the pot for each person...
...could regret when the war finally ends. The alternative would be heavy state control, along the lines of the two oil giants that border Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran. "What we are looking at is Iraq signing deals for next 20 years at a time when it is extremely weak and not fully sovereign," says Greg Muttitt, co-director of Platform, a watchdog organization in London that monitors the oil and gas industries. "The U.S. has put a lot of effort into this." But it's not certain that U.S. or British majors like ExxonMobil or BP will...
...fall later in the day against Boise State. “At least for me, personally, the only thing that really matters is March,” Ogunwole said. “Looking back at it, I’d rather have us have trouble now, have our weak areas exposed earlier rather than later on in the season.” Freshman Frankie Colletta notched two wins for Harvard at 165, beating Dan Clum of Wisconsin, 3-1, and Luke Smith of Boise State, 6-4. Freshman Fred Rowsey and junior Jonathan Butler had a victory each. Rowsey, wrestling...