Whenever Finance Minister, Jane Hutt, appears at a press conference, she knows one question is inevitably coming: when might the big conversation between Jane and Danny reach a conclusion?

BBC: Pocket money and paper rounds

On one big question where Mr Blair takes a tough line internationally, that of cutting the use of fossil fuels, the government is nowhere near reaching its own target.

ECONOMIST: Tony Blair sounds greener abroad than he looks at home

What he knew and when about Lord Ashcroft is a big question, but perhaps a less interesting one than why the normally ruthless Tory leader has tolerated this thorn in his side for so long.

ECONOMIST: The Conservative donor ends a decade of speculation

The oft-raised question--and it's a big one for the U.S.--is whether millennials (also known as "The Everybody Gets A Trophy" generation) have been so coddled, so inoculated against insults and injury, that they are now too, well, soft to achieve entrepreneurial success.

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Britney certainly qualified at the time (but there is a big question whether, five years later, she still needs one).

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Indeed, the more relevant question is whether one or more of the Republicans surrenders to a big tax hike.

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The question is, is it a big lacuna as well as a deep one?

ECONOMIST: A new domain of life

One big question: would the limited data Sarepta has so far collected from a very small clinical trial of its drug eteplirsen, a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that is caused by a very specific type of mutation, be enough to warrant filing with the Food and Drug Administration and perhaps even gain approval?

FORBES: A Key Exchange On Sarepta Therapeutics' Promising Muscular Dystrophy Drug

Gee took a swipe at Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, one of the most powerful leaders in college athletics, when he answered a question about preserving Ohio State's financial interests in light of Big Ten revenue-sharing plans.

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