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...toned brown building across a grassy field from his cottage named "Esperanza," Spanish for hope. In April, he will receive his adult sentence, which he has already pleaded down from a possible life term to anywhere from 1 to 30 years - and is trying to negotiate even further downward. Chavarria arrived at Foothill unable to read, spell or understand math. Now he is in the 9th grade with the hope that he can convince authorities to let him stay at Foothill until he is 21 and earn his GED before he is transferred to an adult facility. "I'm getting...
...staff. While he did get the promotion, the Senate vote of 83-to-14 was the poorest showing for an Army chief since Vietnam. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Casey should be held accountable for giving Congress too-rosy assessments of the war as the situation there spiraled downward into chaos. "I have questioned in the past and question today a number of decisions and judgments that Gen. Casey has made in the past two and a half years," McCain said. "During that time, conditions in Iraq have gotten remarkably and progressively worse...
...advisory group that publishes the scientific documents about the recommendation is still working on the language for a final document, which he said should be released in about six weeks. "But it's a pretty straightforward recommendation," Allen said. He added that girls "ages 11 to 12, and downward to as young as 9 and up to 26, should get the vaccine...
...Obama's 2008 presidential bid, his actual announcement was rather tepid. There was no Oprah performance filled with wordplay on "audacity" and "hope," no tension-filled live broadcast, no Monday Night Football gag, just the oddly flat, open-collared video announcement; perhaps he's already trying to tamp expectations downward, after so many weeks in the hype machine. The substance of his announcement leaves little doubt that he's sincerely interested in running, and the polls suggest that even if the YouTube clip was a little disappointing, he benefits from people not really knowing what a "bad day" means...
...market doesn't look at where you are today, they look on a forward-looking basis and a backward-looking basis. Yes, the profit margins may be at 19 or 20% today, but they were in the mid 20s just a few years ago, and the trajectory is downward into the teens. Earning a Pulitzer Prize for excellent journalism doesn't translate into sales of newspapers in this environment. If newspapers were going to be at 20% [profit margins] going forward, you wouldn't have pressure from shareholders. But revenues are declining. On the positive side, the costs of newsprint...