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...naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it's important to understand that the closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we'll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we're engaged in. There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy -- when it's the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There are going...
...It’s something which is very counter-intuitive to a lot of people,” Ian says. “I laugh when people are like, ‘It’s so risky!’ Do you have money in the stock market, or do you have money in a hedge fund? Here, at least I’m more or less betting on my assessment of myself rather than handing my money over to somebody else...
...Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, one of the key men drafting a final Senate bill behind closed doors this week, on Tuesday called the doctors' legislation "very important" to ensuring final passage of health-care reform. Republicans counter that that is precisely the problem. Not only is the move a transparent ploy to get physicians onboard the reform bill, said Senator Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, "I also see it as a transparent way to take the deficit off the table." Republicans have called the move a budget trick, one of many Democrats are using, they...
...relation to the funding allegedly provided by Raj Rajaratnam to the TRO," the Bank said in an official statement. Rajaratnam's donations to the TRO had been closely monitored by Sri Lankan authorities, according to Sri Lankan security expert Shanaka Jayasekara, attached to the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. "He had come to the attention of the Financial Intelligence Unit due to the funding," he says. (See pictures of the top 10 scared stock traders...
Harvard was not without its own scoring opportunities in regulation. Just over two minutes after the Brown header deflected off the post in the second period, Baskind led a Crimson counter-attack and found senior forward Christina Hagner just feet in front of the net. Hagner, who led Harvard in scoring last season, booted the ball at Bears keeper Steffi Yellin, but the ball was knocked away...