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...Alan G. Lafley...
...think Hank Johnson will cruise to a very easy win here," says Emory University political science professor Alan Abramowitz. The district is 57% black, and encompasses liberal DeKalb County, where Emory University is located. With a median family income of $52,552, it is one of the most affluent African-American counties in the nation. The district supported John Kerry in 2004 with 72% of its vote...
...Problem is, very few people think Alan Schlesinger - or Alan Gold, as he used to call himself when he was gambling at Connecticut's Indian casinos - is the right candidate. Last spring, back when Lamont was a joke and Lieberman looked unassailable, Schlesinger took the time to tour Connecticut collecting enough votes to get himself the Republican nomination. The former state legislator and mayor of Derby was not exactly a political star, but no one begrudged him the work he put in to get the party's nod. As one former GOP lawmaker put it in a recent...
Whether the eight-year boom was really a bubble remains a matter of debate among economists. No less a sage than Alan Greenspan started warning of "froth" in the market in May 2005--and the Fed has raised interest rates 17 times, at least partly to dampen speculative housing activity. Yet the party outlasted several years' worth of doomsday predictions. And for every bubble guy, there's one who thinks prices overall are about right, given mortgage rates that are still low by historic standards and other measures of affordability. "My view is that the run-up of home prices...
...though Epstein’s case was originally to be presented to a grand jury in February, it was postponed after Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, a longtime friend of Epstein, produced information weakening some the accusers’ credibility, according to the Palm Beach Post...