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When the Eisenhower Republican Club received official recognition from the Student Council, the HYRC challenged the schism at the Massachusetts Republican Committee, a state branch of the national charter that was in charge of overseeing the Republican collegiate network...
...Romney is like a charlatan selling snake oil at a carnival. He accommodates his beliefs to the situation at hand for his own advancement. And if he cannot figure out that the Mormon church is a cult branch of traditional Christianity, how would he handle the complex challenges he would encounter as President and Commander in Chief? Fred M. Fariss, Virginia Beach...
...final design, which is now in the first stages of construction, was so unlike Libeskind's original vision that he removed his name from it. But by that time his name was everywhere else. Today he employs about 180 people at his studio in New York City, a branch in Zurich and several small project offices around the world. His operations are global - condo towers in Singapore and Warsaw, a shopping mall in Bern, a performing-arts center in Dublin. Or almost global. At a time when architects are flocking to China, Libeskind, who grew up under communism in Poland...
...Romney is like a charlatan selling snake oil at a carnival. He accommodates his beliefs to the situation at hand for his own advancement. And if he cannot figure out that the Mormon Church is a cult branch of traditional Christianity, how would he handle the complex challenges he would encounter as President and Commander in Chief? Fred M. Fariss, VIRGINIA BEACH...
...Vice-Minister accustomed to running a branch of China's government as his own virtual fiefdom, the sentence must have come as a surprise. On Tuesday, a Beijing court handed down a death penalty for Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), after he was convicted of dereliction of duty and accepting some $850,000 in bribes, according to local media reports. But while the severity of the sentence wasn't completely unprecedented-several senior officials have been executed for corruption in recent years including a deputy minister in 2000-it was still...