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Chinchilla, as a result, has had to fend off suggestions by Solis and other political foes that she's a puppet of Arias, under whom she served as Vice President, and his social-democratic National Liberation Party, to which she belongs as well. The daughter of a former Costa Rican comptroller general, Chinchilla earned a master's degree in public policy at Georgetown University in Washington in the 1980s. But while she often wore indigenous fashions as a college student and criticized the Reagan Administration's involvement in Central America's conflicts, she is a social conservative, opposing abortion rights...
...Europe's less profligate members are realizing, the problem with family is that a good name can be tarnished by a single member's bad behavior. Concern over Greece's public deficit - which now exceeds 12.7% of GDP, well over the E.U. limit of 3% - has sent the euro tumbling and caused stock markets across the continent to fall. And with the finances of eurozone countries now under a market microscope, questions are now being asked about Spain and Portugal, which are also battling high deficits. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Papandreou's government is walking a difficult line. It's been trying to convince its European partners - as well as the global markets - that it is taking serious steps to cut state spending and tackle its deficit without causing civil unrest at home. But the choice may soon be out of Greece's hands, and Papandreou must know that any outside assistance is likely to come with strings attached...
...ever hatch that kind of plan. And for her part, Vonn laughs off any suggestion that she's playing some kind of game. "Wow, I honestly have never thought of that," she says. "This is no way trying to give myself an excuse if I don't do well. I wish that this had never happened. I wish I had come in here healthy, that I had to deal with all the expectations with a healthy body. That is obviously not the case...
...Consider: as part of her physical therapy, her trainers have wrapped her legs in cheese in the hopes of taking the swelling down. "I'm pretty much doing everything and anything I can to make it feel better," she says. "And so far, it seems to be working pretty well. It seems to be getting progressively better every day." NBC would surely rather not have the fate of skiing golds riding on a magic slice of cheese, but at this point it may be the best they can hope...