Word: elective
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...paparazzi shots, says he's already sent more photographers to Washington. "There's going to be a lot of interest, all around the world, in the Obama family," he says. In December, Splash distributed photos of the Obamas holidaying in Hawaii, including some long-lens shots of the President-elect shirtless. Morgan says he had no trouble selling them. (Read about Obama trying to avoid the spotlight in Hawaii...
...political fight to really cut carbon emissions will be knottier. Although Obama has surrounded himself with scientists who believe that global warming is our biggest threat - including Nobel Prize-winner Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, and Harvard's John Holdren as White House science adviser - members of the President-elect's economic team reportedly remain doubtful that cutting carbon is worth the money. And even though Obama has pledged to listen to his scientists "even when it's inconvenient - especially when it's inconvenient," it's the economy that remains front and center in the public realm. (Read "Despite...
...projects under the Kyoto Protocol - do not represent actual emission cuts. In addition, the USCAP proposal recommends that many of the initial carbon emission allowances under a cap-and-trade system should be given to industry free, rather than auctioned - even though auctioning would push carbon reductions faster. (President-elect Obama has said he's in favor of auctions.) "The proposal is a dead end - and an even deader starting point," writes Romm. (Read "Obama Cleans Up After Bush...
...involved in economic policymaking before his Inauguration. Better to let George W. Bush take ownership of the worst recession since the Great Depression so that the new President would be viewed as a fresh start. Emanuel believed, however, that Obama couldn't wait. He was adamant that the President-elect lay out not only his plan but also a specific goal--up to 4 million new jobs...
...Shapleigh, a Democrat and a fifth-generation El Pasoan, in a recent Op-Ed. "Is it too much too soon to ask that this wall come down or is it the right thing to do at the right time in history? If not now, when? If not under President-elect Barack Obama, then...