Middle East peace prospects are expected to be a key theme with U.S. Secretary of State and top negotiator Condoleezza Rice set to open the event on January 23 -- but financial fears are certain to dominate.

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Japan is even less open to foreign workers than to rice imports, finishing at the bottom of the migration rankings.

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Football's all-time leading wide-receiver Jerry Rice would struggle to get open for a pass when running routes against today's speedy cornerbacks, just as few NFL teams would draft Joe Namath and Roger Staubach if the two Hall of Fame quarterbacks were transported into the 1990s while in their primes.

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Rick Ankiel, signed by the Mets earlier in the day after clearing waivers and playing against the team that revived his career as a position player, just missed a diving catch on Ty Wigginton's pinch-hit bloop double to shallow center off Scott Rice (1-3) to open the seventh.

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"Losing sight, " Rutgers coach Mike Rice said of how Connaughton was able to be open and go 6 of 8 from 3-point range and finish with a season-high 21 points in the 24th-ranked Fighting Irish's 69-61 victory Wednesday night in the second round of the Big East tournament.

WSJ: Rutgers can't stop Connaughton in loss to Irish

But Gabi, our fixer supreme, made a couple of quick calls and we witnessed the Rwandan equivalent of Condeleeza Rice phoning a jobsworth on a gate and telling him to open it, or else.

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