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...stirred controversy last March. “She is a monster, too,” Power told the Scotsman. “She is stooping to anything.” Power told the Scotsman that Clinton would fight Obama unscrupulously for the Democratic nomination, and “the amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.” The comment sparked an uproar in the Clinton campaign, which quoted Power in an e-mail to supporters asking for contributions to “show the Obama campaign that there is a price to this kind...
Dongguan, along with a handful of similar nearby towns, is the real Santa's factory at the North Pole. A sprawling, charmless city of 7.5 million that sits 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong in southern China, Dongguan produces a vast amount of the toys that will end up under Christmas trees around the world. Toys were one of the critical, low-wage, low-tech industries on which China built its economic ascent over the past 30 years. But as workers such as Wei know better than anyone, 2008 is the year that that...
...doing. You have to have been shot at before. You cannot be intimidated by flash-bang grenades, or commandos fast-roping down the side of a building. And it is almost certain that the planners of the attack understood that the only way to get into India with the amount of weapons and explosives used in the attacks was by sea - the risk of smuggling them in over land was too great...
...benefit system to the new one isn't cheap and is stretching the financial reserves of the domestic companies. By 2020, GM, which has the largest number of retired employees, will have transferred some $23 billion to the new Voluntary Employee Benefit Association (VEBA), created by the contract. (That amount includes the $13.5 billion GM has already injected into the trust, plus another $9.5 billion yet to be contributed.) Ford owes $13.6 billion to its VEBA, and Chrysler, which doesn't make its finances public, owes between $6 billion and $9 billion to its new retiree-health-care trust...
...significant international experience,” according to the University’s Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez. In April, Rockefeller donated a separate $100 million to the University that will be used to bolster study abroad programs and arts education. The amount awarded to each student will be based on the program or project proposal and demonstrated financial need, according to an e-mail sent to the student body from College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds. To be eligible for consideration, the proposed program or plan must include a stay of at least eight weeks...