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...With General Motors warning that it would run out of money by the end of the month and Chrysler not far behind, the pressure is now firmly on the Bush Administration to find a way to provide $14 billion in short-term loans to keep the companies on life support until a new Congress and the incoming Obama Administration can hammer out a comprehensive solution next year. The White House had been dead set against the Democrats' original entreaties to use money from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, known as TARP, passed by Congress in September to stabilize...
...Republican National Committee spent over $200,000 on clothes and stylists for Palin during the general election, the New York Times reported last week...
...heard about yourself?" Furthermore, Emile has said he will donate at least ?1,500 ($2,240) to British charities that support breast cancer research. But, according to the opposition, throwing money at a worthy issue can't compensate for the harm that the contest exacts on women in general and on cancer victims in particular. "One of the biggest problems facing women with breast cancer is that they lose their hair and their breasts," James says. "They can't live up to the image of beauty this pageant promotes...
...Mugabe is hardly any more popular inside Zimbabwe. His party lost its parliamentary majority in a general election in March, and Mugabe finished second behind opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential vote. But despite the election results and the near daily street protests in the capital, Harare, by doctors, teachers, trade unions and, last week, a few hundred soldiers who ransacked shops and stalls, most Zimbabweans don't expect to be rid of Mugabe anytime soon. "You can have governments under threat from a few days of protest in Thailand or Greece, or food riots destabilizing regimes around...
...Zimbabwe is South Africa, which supplies Zimbabwe's electricity and is the landlocked country's main link with the outside world. But political infighting in the ruling African National Congress has left South Africa without a clear policy on Zimbabwe, a situation unlikely to change before next spring's general election. And there's no consensus among other African governments, many of which share Mugabe's appetite for power, that Mugabe should have to go willingly or be forced out. "I think we are deluding ourselves if we believe that," says Holmes. "And that's the issue; that...