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From the beginning of the presidential race, print and broadcast media ruminated on one question: How would voters react to the new faces of the Democratic party? The press wondered whether Clinton was too tough to appeal to women, or Obama too white to appeal to blacks. When Hillary Clinton’s victory in New Hampshire was credited to a surge in feminine sympathy after a teary-eye moment on the eve of the election, pundits quibbled over the statistical weight of the “identity effect...
...club Chelsea in 2003, to the $1.4 billion shelled out for Manchester United a couple of years later by U.S. tycoon Malcolm Glazer (owner of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers). The investors' goal: to score a slice of the richest soccer league in the world. Buoyed by rising broadcast revenues and a lucrative fan base swelling from the U.S. to Asia, the 20 teams in English football's top league netted some $2.5 billion in revenues during the 2005/6 season. That's almost triple the levels of a decade earlier...
...said. "We say thanks for his great contribution and meritorious service to the nation during his life and forgive his faults." Those who could not get in were forced to watch the proceedings on small televisions set up by the news crews covering the event, which was being broadcast live on national television. Those prominent businessmen and officials who could not make it at all sent ornate wreaths with messages of condolences, their names signed in hundreds of flowers...
...engagement are sometimes given different emphases by the Dutch and the Australians. In October, the Dutch tipped off Uruzgan's new governor, Assadullah Hamdam, that a major operation, Spin Ghar, was about to be conducted in the Baluchi Valley, 16 km north of Tarin Kowt. They dropped leaflets and broadcast messages telling villagers how to protect themselves during the operation, which involved Australian, Dutch, Afghan and British forces. Rietdijk says Spin Ghar uncovered many weapons caches without a single civilian casualty. But Australian SAS sergeant Matthew Locke was shot dead on a reconnaissance mission, and Dutch soldier Ronald Groen...
...known as the Justice and Accountability Law, has 30 clauses and was broadcast on televisions, radios and in newspapers across the country. It will allow all but a few thousand former Ba'ath party members to apply for government jobs and the military. Those still barred will at least receive their government pensions, which were previously revoked. The new law also allows victims of oppression under Saddam to sue Ba'ath party members for compensation...