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...From almost the earliest days of their personal and professional partnership, Barack Obama's political aspirations have guided Michelle's path. At the end of the summer of 1989, Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin, a prestigious Chicago law firm that also happened to employ a young intellectual-property lawyer and Harvard Law grad named Michelle Robinson. Obama was offered a permanent job at Sidley, though senior partner Newton Minow wasn't surprised when he turned the firm down; the two had often discussed the intern's political plans, and Minow had pledged to help Obama in his pursuit...
Walsh, who has worked at the Center for American Women and Politics for nearly 30 years, says Casselberry is a classic model of how women sweep a local government. One of the earliest precedents was in 1920, when the women of Yoncalla, Ore., celebrated winning the right to vote by electing an entirely female municipal government. "These things don't happen without intervention," explains Walsh. "Women often don't feel like they're qualified to run. They probably are, but they need to feel the push of someone asking them...
...opening to China in 1972, was there. So, too, was former President George H.W. Bush, who took considerable political risks at home to rebuild Sino-American relations in the wake of Tiananmen Square. And also Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former chief executive of AIG and one of the earliest and most aggressive U.S. investors in the New China. They were joined by a legion of American CEOs. But Bush and Kissinger - bureaucratic rivals within the U.S. government 30 years ago - were the focal points. Both men are now octogenarians, literally old friends of China. And this "was a moment...
...initial flurry of excitement caused by Yeo when he said that his Burmese counterpart had told him Suu Kyi might possibly be released in six months' time turned out to be a misunderstanding. A clarification was quickly issued in which the Burmese government was quoted as saying the earliest Suu Kyi might be freed would be after...
...Although the end of an era has been decreed, the ax will fall on U.S. Sugar's 1,700 local jobs only in 2014 at the earliest. And that gives the town and Hendry County time to create an alternative economic plan. Although there's much talk of expanding the region's industrial, commercial and tourism base, Clewiston Mayor Mali Chamness, a resident since 1963, is adamant that the focus must remain on the land: "Agriculture - that is our option. We're a farming community. We want to stay a farming community." Sugar employees, and the local businesses they sustain...