Winners & Losers
Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Winners Gordon Brown: Long-suffering, dandruff-prone UK treasurer prepares to succeed Tony Blair as the head of Labour and Britain. Paul Wolfowitz: Survives the unsavory Euro-coup—for at least a few more days. Vietnamese stocks: So hot right now. Michael Moore: U.S. Treasury stupidly publicizes the perennial blowhard’s latest stunt, which involves schlepping sick 9/11 rescuers ...
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Winners
Gordon Brown: Long-suffering, dandruff-prone UK treasurer prepares to succeed Tony Blair as the head of Labour and Britain.
Winners
Gordon Brown: Long-suffering, dandruff-prone UK treasurer prepares to succeed Tony Blair as the head of Labour and Britain.
Paul Wolfowitz: Survives the unsavory Euro-coup—for at least a few more days.
Vietnamese stocks: So hot right now.
Michael Moore: U.S. Treasury stupidly publicizes the perennial blowhard’s latest stunt, which involves schlepping sick 9/11 rescuers to Cuba.
Timor-Leste: What better way to end the violence than to elect a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Losers
Iran doves: So much for engagement, eh?
Rudy Giuliani: Pope Benedict XVI’s abortion pontificating underscores what will be the inevitable campaign-killer for the abortion-fickle former NYC mayor.
Syrian democrats: President Bashar al-Assad guaranteed a second-term; pro-democracy dissident Dr. Kamal Labwani guaranteed a stint in prison.
Japanese vending machines: Vital source of panties threatened by crackdown in Colombia.
Poland: Pootie-Poot scuppers Polish hopes bring Kazakh oil around, not through, Russia.
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