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Until her resignation last Friday—the fallout of the notorious party-crashing of a White House gala by Tareq and Michaele Salahi—she was President Obama’s White House social secretary—the nation’s highest-ranking party planner...
...bidding process aimed to get the best aircraft at the lowest price. However, Commander Darryn James, a Pentagon spokesman, told Reuters, "We are disappointed that Northrop is not competing." He added that neither the decision by EADS and Northrop Grumman to drop out of the competition nor the fallout from it changes "the Defense Department's commitment to transatlantic defense ties." (Read "For the Arms Industry, India Is a Hot Market...
...drab hallways where couples, eager to get their applications completed, snaked toward the Marriage Office. Many used that word in a strictly legal sense, explaining that they wanted to be married for the sake of their children's inheritance rights, taxes or hospital visits. (See a video of the fallout from a Florida gay-marriage...
...simplifies where he should have complicated: while the Putumayo revelations contributed much to the burgeoning discourse of human rights, the movement would not gain momentum until the Interwar years and beyond, as a product of the agonized transitions to independence made by many former colonies, and, of course, the fallout from the nakedly imperialist ambitions of the Third Reich...
...decades - first as a student leader in the 1970s and then as a rising minister in the government of Mahathir Mohamad. Eventually, as a powerful and charismatic Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar was poised to unseat Mahathir and take the reins of government when he was cut down in the fallout over how to tackle the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. As a prisoner, Anwar continued to influence national politics, turning his plight into a global cause, forming a multiracial political party and putting together an opposition coalition - all from behind bars...