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...Farrakhan). Several Jewish leaders have defended Obama against the Islam rumors. Hillary Clinton won among Jewish voters in New York and Maryland, but Obama won Jews in Connecticut and California. Is the wooing working? Exit polls in Texas and Ohio on March 4 should tell which candidate is the chosen people's choice...
...there must be other explanations for why the company that is perhaps the greatest enabler of American (and, increasingly, global) consumption, born in 1958 as BankAmericard and rechristened Visa in 1976, has chosen now of all times to go public. One is that Visa makes its money (a $424 million profit in the last quarter of 2007, up 70% from a year earlier) from transaction fees, not lending, so it doesn't have to worry nearly as much as banks do about people making their credit-card payments. Another is that the banks that own Visa stand to make more...
...Archives; Mike Levin, National Security Agency retiree; and former CIA agent Melissa Mahle who worked in covert operations in the Middle East. Blanton and Levin accompanied the directors to the Sundance Film Festival, where “Secrecy” was among the less-than 2% of documentary submissions chosen for screening. Audiences reacted enthusiastically, engaging in discussions on both the film’s aesthetic and political content.The greatest challenge of the project, according to both directors, was the fact that the subject of the film is essentially invisible. This obstacle, however, proved to be the greatest source...
...would be a simple matter of weighing résumés. Take a Democrat like Bill Richardson - experienced in Congress, in the Cabinet, as a diplomat and governor - and have him run against Republican Tom Ridge, a former soldier, governor and Director of Homeland Security, with the winner chosen by a blue-ribbon commission of all-purpose elders. The Danforth-Mitchell commission, perhaps, or O'Connor-Albright. But it has never worked that way, which is why Lincoln's statue occupies a marble temple on the Mall in Washington, while his far more experienced rival William Seward...
...application notes.This has not deterred students from applying though. Staff said yesterday that about two dozen students had already filled out applications. The SAC will decide on the three non-UC members through an interview process. The UC members to be recommended for the committee will be chosen by nomination at the Council meeting this Sunday, according to Staff. In addition to the decision to go ahead with the application process without affirmation from Smith, some UC members have expressed disapproval in the first place that the body is deciding who will evaluate its own role on campus, creating heated...