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...company teetered, paralyzed by nearly $35 billion in debt--one might suspect he'd be radioactive. If so, the toxic glow didn't last long. "Soon after I created Messier Partners," he says, "I was working with a big U.S. CEO, and I asked him why he'd chosen to work with me when he has all the major American investment banks at his feet.He said, 'Jean-Marie, how could I trust the advice of someone who has only ever had success?' To be able to give advice, you need to know the meaning of a decision and to have...
...factor in the 2008 campaign. Democratic turnout, which was barely more than 75,000 in the 2004 primary, on Tuesday totaled more than four times that number. "I am grateful to the people of Mississippi for joining the millions of Americans from every corner of the country who have chosen to turn the page on the failed politics of the past and embrace our movement for change," Obama said Tuesday night...
...would agree to testify before Congress right away demonstrates its high priority. We plan to continue to put this on the front burner.”The “Broken Pipeline” report consists primarily of anecdotal evidence in the form of interviews with 12 scientists chosen by the participating schools. Harvard selected its interviewees “to exemplify a first-rate researcher...whose grant application thus far had been rated as very high quality but had been stuck in a queue,” according to Casey.“We thought personalizing it would make...
...from Baghdad. They are not anywhere; they are selling illusions to others.” Within two days, U.S. troops entered Baghdad. Baghdad was lost, Saddam Hussein was hanged, but the words of MSS are still alive today on coffee mugs and T shirts. While MSS knew his carefully chosen words were untrue, he realized their impact on the people of Iraq. The only sources of information to the Iraqis were state-controlled, and conjuring up defeats of the coalition forces would raise the morale of Iraqi troops who would find renewed strength to fight after hearing of the defeats...
...pain and perseverance, while the conservatives paint bright horizons. Passing a reformists' election poster in Tehran's 7th Tir Square, Mehrdad Ghaffari, 21, an electrical engineering student is asked whether he'll vote. "These elections have nothing to do with us," he says. "Most of the representatives are already chosen anyway...