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...recent time polls - a national survey and a sample of battleground states, including Missouri - support the notion that a sour and deteriorating economy is helping Obama close the deal with white America. The Wall Street crisis has driven Bush's approval ratings to new depths, and McCain, at the helm of Bush's gop, is struggling to escape the undertow. Nearly two-thirds of the 1,098 people sampled in the national poll said they personally are going backward economically. Among these anxious voters, Obama had opened a huge lead - some 25 percentage points - over McCain. Obama appears...
That may not be so exotic as it sounds. Every theology has a subdivision for business ethics, but Judaism's is especially complete. It is said that more of the 613 commandments in the Jewish bible deal with keeping one's money kosher (or "fit") than pertain to one's food; and the business literature springing from that concern may be the longest and most continuous in the world...
Smith has so far been closed-mouthed on what specific plans he might institute to deal with the deficit, but in previous interviews and in yesterday’s letter, he stressed a more transparent budgeting process, and targeted planning for an upcoming capital campaign, which University officials say may start as soon...
...there are facilities with trained help that were built to take care of them. By virtue of the fact that nobody else is going to do it, most police departments know that they're going to have them in their custody so they now train police in how to deal with the mentally ill. But it's all makeshift compared with what was intended when the Kennedy commitment was made way back yonder when he said let's open up these dungeons, where we had the mentally ill housed like beasts, and let the country build local facilities to treat...
...believe the solution he helped draft to the Kosovo war in 1999, which stipulated that Kosovo remain under Serbia's control, left the problem unresolved and sowed the seeds for the recent flare-ups between the West and Russia in the Balkans and Caucasus. "It was not a good deal. We should have gone all the way," says a U.S. diplomat familiar with the compromise. Ahtisaari has also been criticized for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which he did on humanitarian grounds...