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Honey Marques drives a white pickup truck with a bumper sticker, "Defend Liberty, Defeat Tyranny." But she is not a drive-by supporter. Marques, 34, is the president of the Scottsdale group and has been a devout conservative since discovering Rush Limbaugh while growing up on the Hawaiian island of Maui. She says, "We want limited government, fiscal responsibility, free-market principles and transparency. We are tired of government taking over our freedom." Marques, who attended the huge September 2009 Tea Party rally in Washington, believes that Obama's oratory and agenda will push the nation closer to socialism...
...willingness to reform their schools. Duncan's definition of reform - a common one these days - demanded more school choice and competition as well as an emphasis on teacher evaluation and accountability. "Duncan really nailed this," says New York City Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey. "You can use federal funds to drive a reform agenda. You can buy change, even from state legislatures ... although in our case, the opponents were pretty ingenious - invidious and ingenious." (See 10 elections that changed America...
...Moscow's drive isn't just about real estate and nationalism. Critics say the government is also trying to bring back into the fold the congregations that broke with the Russian Orthodox Church during the Soviet era to join a rival Orthodox branch, the Patriarchate of Constantinople - as the faithful in Nice did in 1931. Many of these overseas congregations have started to restore their ties to the Russian Orthodox Church in recent years, though Gueit says this is only in response to the government's putting the squeeze on their churches...
...book titles at car windows for a fraction of the price. That's hard for small book stores like Full Circle to overcome. "The minute you have a best seller, it doesn't even take five days for book pirates to sell it on the street," laments Malhotra. "You drive down any of the main roads in Delhi, and you'll see all the latest titles for less than half the price." And the cost to the industry is significant a significant one: For the most popular titles, illicit sales of pirated copies can rival store-bought sales figures. (Read...
...mutual funds do. Although this makes the ETF more transparent, it also opens up the ETF to the risk that savvy hedge funds and others may snap up shares in a stock that an ETF is known to be moving into. This practice, known as front-running, could drive up the stock price and thereby dull the ETF's performance...