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Along much of his tour, Obama is being accompanied by Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, whose surprise endorsement at the beginning of the bus trip has given Obama a much-needed ally in a state where the establishment long ago endorsed Clinton, including Governor Ed Rendell, Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter. The pro-life Casey is popular with the white union and Catholic voters that Obama has spent the week courting...
...delays in releasing the results have prompted speculation that the regime is attempting to fix the poll. There are ample grounds for suspicion: elections in 2000, 2002 and 2005 were marred by violence and rigging. In Washington on Monday, U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey urged that the results be released. "The opportunities for mischief increase the longer the delay is between the elections and the announcement," he said. Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described Mugabe as a "disgrace," while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned that the "eyes of the world" were on Zimbabwe...
...budget—well above inflation for biomedical research, which was 3.9 percent last year, according to a federal government index. Though the amendment passed the Senate 95-4, it faces a number of procedural hurdles before becoming law. Similar efforts have failed in the past, and Kevin Casey, Harvard’s associate vice president for government, community, and public affairs, said that despite the “strong support” of the Senate, White House opposition could still stymie Harvard’s efforts, at least in the short term. “Ultimately, we?...
...Casey said that there are currently new ad-hoc programs at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals that lend support to researchers who are weighed down by the tight market for federal research dollars...
...It’s not supposed to be easy to become a biomedical researcher,” Casey said. “But it is an insurmountable challenge to tell young people to wait until 40 to build their career...