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Republicans - Mike Huckabee won votes from the state's evangelical voters, who appreciated his background as a Baptist minister and viewed him as the most conservative candidate, according to exit polls...
...young faculty and give them administrative experience,” she said. “It was a fair amount in a short amount of time.” Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Human Rights Committee on which Spar serves, says that Spar’s background is well-suited for leading a liberal-arts institution. “She certainly has a lot of managerial and business related skills,” Bhabha said. “But she also has a broad set of interests that span different disciplines.” Spar teaches courses...
...rival BNP is planning a hostile bid on the bank. That prospect appeared even more feasible on Wednesday, as BNP announced 2007 profits of $11 billion - smaller, to be sure, than 2006, but far better than European competitors reporting billions of losses linked to subprime exposure. Against that troubling background, many SocGen employees fondly recalled Bouton's deft defensive moves in fending off BNP's hostile...
...campaign. "Our campaign from the very beginning has been about one central thing and that is to give voice to millions of Americans who have absolutely no voice in this democracy," he would say, as he did conceding South Carolina, never forgetting to remind voters of his Horatio Alger background as the son of a poor mill worker. "If you're one of the forgotten middle class, people who are working and struggling just to pay their bills, literally worried about every single day, we will give you voice in this campaign...
...thing that Kenya has going for it right now, it seems, is that the world is refusing to let the crisis fade into the background. The African Union has promised to consider the issue in a summit that begins on Thursday. And the special U.N. adviser on preventing genocide, Francis Deng, has warned that Kenya's politicians could be held responsible for any violation of international law. That came just days after the New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report concluding that there was some indication that the violence had been planned beforehand, particularly in areas where Odinga...