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...Analysts are also upset because the presentation did not come with a Gantt chart showing the details and timing of each aspect of every program in the bailout. They are afraid that it is simply written on a cocktail napkin, which is exactly what Henry Paulson did with the diagram of how he intended to spend the $350 billion that he wanted to put into the banking system...
...watched the midterm election returns in his apartment, and Barack was rooting very hard for Harvey Gantt, an African-American Senate candidate in North Carolina running against Jesse Helms,” Berenson said. “I remember that [Barack] was wearing a Harvey Gantt T-shirt in his apartment that night, and he was dismayed in a good-natured way when Gantt went down in defeat...
Ensigns Taylor A. Banks, E. Rebecca Gantt, David G. Germakian, John M. Harrington, Jeffrey C. Munns and Victoria O. Santana and second-lieutenants Stacie K. Persons and Alexis M. Presti. Cadet Michael A. Zacchilli also took part in the ceremony but will not receive his official commission until August...
...Indomitable on the Senate floor, Helms has also shown an appetite for political risk-taking on the campaign trail. He raised eyebrows during his 1990 race against Democrat Harvey Gantt when he ran an ad showing a pair of white hands crumbling a job application. The famous tag line: "You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?" Helms defeated Gantt, who is black, despite considerable opposition from voters in the state?s liberal Research Triangle area...
...stand on a divisive moral issue. Most are far too concerned with raking in endorsement dollars to risk any controversy. In 1990 Michael Jordan, who occupies the psychological spot that Robinson pioneered as the dominant black athlete of his time, declined to endorse his fellow black North Carolinian Harvey Gantt over troglodyte racist Jesse Helms in a close contest for the U.S. Senate on the grounds that "Republicans buy shoes too." More recently, Jordan brushed off questions about whether Nike, which pays him $20 million a year in endorsement fees, was violating standards of decency by paying Indonesian workers only...