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What an informative and entertaining writer Catherine Mayer is! Apart from enjoying her article on Cameron, I now have a much clearer insight into the person most likely to take the helm as Britain's next Prime Minister. Bob Buckley, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA...
...stakes became even clearer once the tally started at 1:27 Monday afternoon. By 1:51, 227 members had voted against it - nine votes more than the 218 majority. By 2:02 p.m., Hoyer and Representative Rahm Emanuel, the No. 4 House Democrat, were in animated discussions on the Republican side of the chamber with Boehner and Blunt. Hoyer "was running around in there saying, 'The market is falling! The market is falling!' " said Scott Garrett, a New Jersey Republican. Faced with a major GOP shortfall, Democrats refused to force 12 of their members to change their votes...
John McCain and Barack Obama are both selling theories about what kind of leader America needs in the 21st century. But the financial crisis yanked their notions out of the lab and tested them in real time, under a magnifying glass. And now we have a much clearer idea of what we would risk with either...
When you look at things this way, it becomes clearer what the frenzy in New York City and Washington is all about. There are major quality issues with our nation's flagship product. The authorities have acknowledged the problem--"This is a humbling, humbling time for the United States of America" is how Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put it in one TV interview. So now Paulson & Co. are recalling defective financial products en masse, slapping GUARANTEED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT labels on some of them and replacing others outright with U.S. treasuries...
...expected. PUSH OUT, HEAD FIRST Some changes have already found their way out of the womb. The G-clock policy—which extends key graduate school deadlines by a year for new parents—is now official, Ruff said. “Now it’s clearer and much more widely known that when students have children, they deserve extension of their G-clock,” Ruff said. The Joint Student Committee, however, will continue to brainstorm and learn from peer institutions to create a coherent parental accommodation policy. “We have to advocate...