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...figured that's as far as I could push it. Like, I figure that that is the exact place where the line between life and death...
...born in India, was arrested in New Jersey last week in a joint sting operation by the FBI and the Russian Federal Security Service for trying to sell a shoulder-fired missile to an informant posing as a terrorist. In what appears to be a coincidence, at almost the exact moment the FBI was beaming over Lakhani's arrest, security forces in Saudi Arabia discovered a document indicating that Saudi militants were casing King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in preparation for an attack on a British target. U.S. officials believe that the militants may have planned to assault passengers...
With angel investing, though, you can exact control over management. Indeed, the typical start-up looking for angel funding wants it from people who can help as board members or advisers. "The perfect candidate is a retired, successful entrepreneur who can provide valuable counsel," says Christopher Starr, managing director of Innovation Philadelphia, a regional economic-development group that finds financing for entrepreneurs. A perfect set of 10 angel investors throwing in $100,000 each to reach the $1 million mark that many start-ups want would include one or two attorneys, accountants, consultants, bankers and industry executives, along with some...
...most important, advisers say, is the fact that Shriver's reluctance had softened. No one could understand better than a Kennedy the costs that politics could exact, so it made sense that she would come around slowly. The couple hasn't confided just how or when it happened. "What was widely publicized as her opposition to do this was wrong. She wasn't against it," says an adviser. "And she got to a place where she supported...
...rights that married straight couples enjoy except the right to be called married. Kerry waded in, invoking history and religion to argue that marriage is viewed by "the body of America ... as a contract between a man and a woman." Boos and hisses. Dean, who shares the exact same position, avoided the question by joking with Donaldson about the newsman's pointed interrogation. The crowd giggled, a disarmed Donaldson apologized, and Dean moved on to his support for gays in the military. Cheers. Dean had done something preternaturally political--avoided a question, changed the subject--and got away with...