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...that serve at the very moment the campaign was trying to woo Clinton's donors, court her ardent supporters and win over the candidate herself? "Just stupid," said a top Clinton fundraiser this week. Clinton and Obama will go on their brief unity tour this week, but the merger deal will not close now until the convention, a source close to both Clintons reported this week...
...said earlier this year that the company will never be sold on his watch. Missouri governor Matt Blunt has denounced the takeover bid and Senator Claire McCaskill declared, after a visit from InBev boss Carlos Brito, that she would do everything in her power to block the deal...
...does the potential combination appear to trip antitrust alarms. InBev's business is primarily overseas, and the Bud brands would continue to face strong competition from the soon-to-be-merged Miller and Coors breweries. The story of this deal may ultimately come down to two words: money talks. (Muscular Euros, in fact, talk real loud these days...
...compromise deal to extend the federal government's domestic spying powers, passed by the House on Friday and expected to sail through the Senate next week, has drawn attacks from both sides of the political spectrum. The right is unhappy at concessions made to protect civil liberties; the left is furious that the Democrats allowed the domestic spying powers to be extended in any form. Much of the latter's rage has been directed against Nancy Pelosi, the liberal House Speaker who was instrumental in negotiating the deal - attacking her on the Internet and virtually shutting down her switchboard with...
That potential boycott and Akinola's strong language this week will make it much harder for Williams to ignore the fact that a sizable chunk of his Communion, particularly from Africa and conservative dioceses of North America, is no longer interested in discussing questions of how the Communion will deal with homosexual bishops and the blessing of homosexual unions, and appears ready to act unilaterally to get its way. Failure to deal with the conflict could result in a shift in the Communion's center of power away from its English roots and toward its growing, disgruntled churches...