Word: arlene
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...Michael J. Arlen ’52 met Updike when he arrived at The Lampoon as a freshman with stack of clippings from his high school newspaper tucked under...
...liberal advocacy groups, even if criminal investigations get in the way of Obama's hope for bipartisan comity? Or, as Republicans prefer, would he leave the past behind? And what about his willingness to stand up to his boss and friend? As the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Arlen Specter, put it, "[Holder] has an outstanding academic and professional record ... But sometimes it is more important for the Attorney General to have the stature and the courage to say no instead of to say yes." (See the top 10 contested officeholders...
...bill, even with a majority of 58 - or 59 if they win the last undecided Senate race in Minnesota. Democrats will need 60 votes to overcome what is sure to be a GOP filibuster of the measure and only one Republican supported it in a previous vote, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter. Nor is it certain that all of the incoming Democratic senators - many of them more moderate and business friendly, such as Virginia's Mark Warner, Tom and Mark Udall (cousins from New Mexico and Colorado) and Alaska's Mark Begich - will support the measure...
...spent wisely, especially since all three companies are already so deep in debt (GM alone owes $48 billion). To that end, the GOP wants a change in leadership at all three companies. "I have yet to see any semblance of a plan for General Motors to become viable," Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor. "General Motors and the auto industry have been on notice for a long time that they were in a very difficult, competitive situation...
...seats is important. The fewer Democrats Reid needs to hold and the fewer Republicans he needs to win over, the easier it will be to deliver for Obama. There are several blue-state Republican Senators to provide Reid a target for alliances: Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe in Maine, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and George Voinovich in Ohio have all broken from their party at points. At least publicly, McConnell is promising cooperation. In a statement on Wednesday, he said, "These times are too important not to move quickly together...