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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd announced Thursday that he can't keep negotiating a financial reform compromise with Republican senator Robert Corker, because the process needs to go faster. Corker then declared that he was "very disappointed" the talks had broken down, and that the process needs to go slower...
Winthrop House alumni seem to have found their way into politics. Alumni include President John F. Kennedy '40, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54, and U.S. Representative Barney Frank '61. Winthrop House has also produced two high-profile economists—both Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke '75 and former Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60 lived in Winthrop as upperclassmen...
...base. After Specter's party switch, Toomey was down in the polls by 20 points against Specter in a general-election matchup. The GOP scouted unsuccessfully for a more moderate candidate, like popular former governor Tom Ridge. So dark were Toomey's prospects that Senator Orrin Hatch, the vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, lamented to Politico.com, "I don't think there is anybody in the world who believes he can get elected Senator there." (See pictures from the Pennsylvania Senate race...
...Hair," a Trotskyite pro-democracy legislator known for his long hair and Che T-shirts, can become the second most popular politician in the city, the people aren't ready to pick their own Chief Executive. For some, the skepticism runs deeper. As Tam Yiu-Chung, the pro-Beijing chairman of Hong Kong's largest party, asked reporters in January, "Do you think the people of Hong Kong can decide political change for themselves...
...socialist organizations, Howard Dean. These people all play into this one-world order, one-world money system. And it's to make money for them." In an assessment of the candidates, Tea Party leaders note that Morton has "passion to loan." The same could be said of Nigel Coleman, chairman of the Danville Tea Party, who scrapped plans to burn effigies of Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a November rally after the idea garnered negative attention...