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...meet his kids? No, but I met his dog, Bo. He's a very good dog and a very pretty dog. He has two white feet in front and two black feet in the back, and he listens to his commands. I took a picture with him and patted him on his head. (See pictures of Presidents and their dogs...
...election campaign in Germany took an ugly turn last week when the country's far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) threatened a black member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Angolan-born Zeca Schall, who has German citizenship, was featured on CDU campaign posters in the eastern state of Thuringia, which is holding a regional election on Aug. 30. The posters went up on Aug. 1; 10 days later, the NPD attacked Schall on its website, calling him a "n_____ for the CDU party quota," telling him to "go back home to Angola" and urging...
...people could be legitimately worried. Few would dispute that the Taliban is making inroads into its original stronghold. Militant radio stations in the region are broadcasting anti-election threats, echoed in local mosques, about not going into town. And black turbans, the telltale accessory of the Taliban, roam freely in the suburbs, say locals. On his return to Kandahar over the weekend, Mohammed Amir, a 26-year-old truck driver, says he saw about 20 Taliban setting up a roadside bomb. "They were not scared," he says. "They were not even in a hurry...
...site defines midcareer as having a minimum of 10 years' experience.) Not far behind are the alumni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Harvey Mudd College (a small school with a big engineering program). On the other end of the 600-school spectrum: South Dakota's Black Hills State University, whose midcareer graduates reportedly earn $42,000 a year...
PayScale's college ranking, in its second year, is drawing fire for its methodology. Median salaries for smaller institutions - like Black Hills - can be based on as few as 100 people. And the salaries are not adjusted for factors like cost of living. Another problem with the ranking is that it excludes anyone with a graduate degree. As a result, a huge portion of alumni can be left out; a recent Dartmouth survey of its 2008 grads found that 80% of them were either attending graduate school or planning to apply in the next five years. (Read "An Antidote...