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John McCain thinks Obama's "spread the wealth" comment is a major gotcha. He has locked his chops around this remark like a terrier around Obama's ankle and keeps repeating it. He regards it as self-evidently self-damning. On Meet the Press, McCain ducked Tom Brokaw's invitation to agree or disagree with Sarah Palin that Obama is a "socialist." But a day later McCain brandished a radio interview from seven years ago in which Obama had used the term redistributive change...
Nesson, who could not be reached for comment because he has been traveling, has written on his Web site that the recording industry organization is trying to intimidate others through its actions against Tenenbaum...
...Chrysler boss Robert Nardelli, brought in to save the company, out of a job. "We can acknowledge that we have been in contact with a variety of federal officials for some time during this extraordinary and difficult economic period," said GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson. "We have said publicly, in comment to the Michigan [congressional] delegation's call for support of the industry, that we believe the Federal Government should consider all of the tools available to it - some recently enacted - to support industries that are in distress and that are essential to the U.S. economy," he said. On Thursday, those...
...private equity for 2009 was up to 13 percent of the University’s endowment, or just under $4.8 billion, meaning that the proposed sale would comprise nearly a quarter of its private equity assets. HMC Director of Private Equity Peter Dolan could not be reached for comment, and University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to confirm the sale due to Harvard’s standing policy not to “discuss investment strategies or individual investments.” Several Boston-area hedge funds that received substantial initial investments from Harvard—including ex-HMC chief...
...from the campaigns. They unmistakably opted to create great entertainment with negligible journalistic content. It is this focus on the images rather than the stances of political candidates that Adatto calls “photo-op culture.”It was this culture that Palin’s comment was playing into. It is hardly surprising that she uses the language of photo-op culture, considering the extent to which she is immersed in it—considering that she is, perhaps, the culmination of it. The purpose of a photo-op is to present an image that expresses...