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Both campaigns have evoked the ghost of Harry S. Truman, a salt-of-the-earth fellow whose honesty and common sense allowed him to govern in Washington without being corrupted. So I began my trip near the leafy street corner in Independence, Mo., where Truman had his home. I strolled the downtown sidewalks along which the former President took his morning constitutional after he returned home from building the postwar world. In a shop near the courthouse, I asked the woman behind the counter what she was thinking about the election. She replied that she was a lifelong Republican...
Proponents have made several arguments for hate-crimes laws, but the most common is that the laws address entire communities, not just particular crimes. As the Justice Department said in a 1999 publication about hate crimes (click here for a PDF), "when crimes are committed because of our differences, the effects can reverberate beyond a single person or group into an entire community, city, or society as a whole...
...Maybe it's a surprise, with 20/20 hindsight, that stocks held up as well as they did for as long as they did," says Bob Doll, chief investment officer for equities at BlackRock. "At the end of the day, lower-quality credit and stocks do have some things in common." The fear that has made investors shy away from all but the safest of debt finally moved on to the next logical step: fear of stocks, which inherently are riskier investments...
...noted that the main objective will be to engage faculty with alumni on issues including leadership, globalization, and the financial markets. “We want to bring them back to campus for an experience that will hopefully reignite and re-cement their enthusiasm for the school through this common learning approach, which is reflective of the approach they enjoyed when they were students here,” he said. The three-day event, which costs $1,500 per person, currently has a waitlist of over 250 individuals, according to Stephanie Goff, director of alumni relations at the Business School...
...ashamed, purposefully vague about her churchgoing habits. "I don't have a church, I'm not a member of any church," she said. "I get to visit a couple of churches in Alaska when I'm home, including one, Wasilla Bible Church." Church-hopping is a common practice for many religious Americans, but it is relatively unusual for Evangelicals with children to shift among a number of churches instead of belonging to one stable faith community...