Word: deal
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...America's largest textbook buyers, the Longhorn State has a good deal of sway over what is peddled to schools nationwide. And while Napoléon may have maintained that "history is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon," getting Texans to come together on the past may prove to be their Waterloo...
...existing federal system. Holder doesn't have a feel yet for where the President will come down on the talks. "I'm just not sure where the President is on this," Holder says. A senior aide involved in the discussions says, "If there's a Rahm-Graham deal...
Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd unveiled a bill to increase oversight of the financial industry, a move he said would better equip the country to deal with future economic crises. But Wall Street has already balked at his plan, which includes a new consumer-protection bureau, gives shareholders input on CEO pay and improves regulation of credit-rating agencies such as Moody's and Standard and Poor...
Indeed, by carefully controlling her own visibility - and refusing to be challenged or held accountable by adversaries or the press - she has become even more irresistible as programming and copy. Just last week, she signed a television deal reportedly worth millions to be featured in an eight-episode documentary called Sarah Palin's Alaska on Discovery's TLC channel. She'll add the show to Palin Inc., which already includes her richly compensated duties on Fox and another book on the way, as well as the mega-best seller Going Rogue and numerous private speaking engagements. But Palin plans...
...only if Pakistan makes it happen. That may also explain the recent arrests of 14 senior Taliban commanders in Pakistan - according to the U.N. and Afghan officials in Kabul, some of those held by Pakistan had been engaged in secret talks, and were more open to a peace deal than their hard-core brethren inside the movement's war council...