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...During Obama's presidential bid, DuBois rose to become national director of religious affairs, leading a team of up to eight campaign staffers and hundreds of volunteers...
...largest American companies that reached a crisis in the last month is Dow Chemical. It lost a deal with Kuwait that would have given it about $7 billion. It also bid to buy Rohm & Hass (ROH). Now that the money from Kuwait is gone and the worldwide chemical industry is in a deep recession, Dow is backing away from the acquisition of Rohm & Hass. Based on all public information, it has no right to do so. When did that Dow board know that the Kuwait deal was in trouble? Did it decide to rely on the money which was coming...
...interviews, titled Femme Debout (Standing Woman), is expected to fly off bookshelves when it hits stores Thursday. As the title suggests, the book seeks to dispel any suspicion that a series of setbacks Royal has suffered since her May 2007 loss to Sarkozy has weakened in any way her bid for another run in 2012. In addition to the jabs at those she feels are conspiring to block her path, Royal also punctuates the book's pages with the boundless self-confidence that has proven both an asset and a liability to her over time. (See pictures of Bastille...
...second job that Daschle had been slated to hold - that of head of a new White House Office of Health Reform. Thus far, Administration officials have not been willing to say if that White House job will even exist in the wake of Daschle's decision to end his bid for Health Secretary amid reports that he had failed to pay $128,000 of income taxes on time. But that White House office was where Daschle's expertise and clout would have mattered the most. While his former deputy Jeanne Lambrew is widely respected for her policy knowledge...
...Obama is losing a most trusted ally, someone who had been one of the first Democratic establishment figures to support his presidential bid. Obama had tapped many of Daschle's former aides as he built his political organization. Between Daschle's expertise on the medical system and his understanding of the workings of Congress, he had seemed like the perfect choice to guide the health-care reform that Obama promised on the campaign trail. "I accept his decision with sadness and regret," said Obama, who spoke with Daschle by phone on Tuesday and was said to be surprised...