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...registered Republican, he decided to mount his 2006 gubernatorial campaign as an independent due to concerns about his ability to win the GOP nomination. “I’m a moderate Republican, and we don’t survive closed Republican primaries because the conservative base always shows up,” Halcro said, referring to the fact that independents can’t vote in the Republican primary. “If I was going to invest my time and money, I wanted to actually get to the dance.” As for his thoughts...
...darker side of globalization. While the benefits to these players—and the world basketball market generally—may increase as a result of their going abroad, there are inevitable costs. As a fundamentally American sport, born in Springfield, Mass. in 1891, moving players from their fan base would destroy the game at its popular epicenter Also, the move indicates the state of today’s economy. With an exchange rate that has fluctuated around $1.50 for every Euro, these foreign organizations have the purchasing power to offer American players attractive salaries...
...good medicine for the accountants too. Roche can better forecast its future customer base, allowing it to do much more precise cost-benefit analysis ahead of time. "A drug can take 12 years or longer to develop from start to finish," says Steve Sembler, who oversees Roche's U.S. commercial operations. "Diagnostics give us a much longer-term perspective and take a lot of the guesswork out of the process...
...delivered the inaugural Herbert W. Vaughn Lecture, a biannual address that will focus on the “founding principles and core doctrines” of the U.S. Constitution. In his speech, entitlted “Methodology of Originalism,” Scalia argued that justices should strive to base their decisions on the original meaning of the law. Within the Supreme Court, Scalia is one of the leading proponents of constitutional originalism. He opposes the concept of a “living Constitution,” that the Constitution’s meaning should be adapated...
When a contingent of U.S. soldiers opens a radar facility on a mountaintop in the Negev desert next month, Israel will for the first time in its 60-year history have a permanent foreign military base on its soil. And despite the early warning that the American radar would provide if Iran launches a missile attack on Israel, some senior Israeli officials are nonetheless wary about its presence. Complained one top official, "It's a like a pair of golden handcuffs on Israel...