| Leadership scramble: GOP rivals vie for title
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 AP - The Republican presidential contenders are making a pitch to voters that sounds a lot like a children's game: Follow the leader.
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| Feisty Gingrich stakes campaign on electability
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 AP - Newt Gingrich has staked his presidential bid on one idea: that he is best positioned to defeat President Barack Obama. Even some of his supporters seem to be struggling to buy the former House speaker's claim, an indication that chief rival Mitt Romney's efforts to undercut him may be working.
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| Finance chiefs reassure CEOs over European crisis
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 AP - Leading finance chiefs sought to reassure anxious global business leaders on Friday that Europe is on track to solve its crippling debt crisis before it drags the world's economies down. Europe's top banker said investors, burned after trusting the region's governments too much, now trust them too little.
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| College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan
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 AP - Illinois State University President Al Bowman says President Barack Obama's proposal to tie federal support to tuition controls is a product of "fuzzy math." His counterpart at the University of Washington calls it little more than "political theater."
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| Obama seeks government reforms in Congress
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 AP - President Barack Obama, fresh from a five-state tour following his State of the Union address, is calling for government reforms to ease gridlock and bar members of Congress from profiting from their position.
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| Despair, crackdowns breed more violence in Tibet
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 AP - A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause.
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