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...Overall, a sluggish economy appears to have made it harder for the Class of 2008 to find employment, with 66 percent of workforce-bound seniors reporting that they have a job lined up after graduation, compared with 73 percent in a similar survey last year...
...work for Fannie Mae and Lockheed Martin, he is also one of the few Republicans in Washington that Democrats trust, and even turn to for help because of his sound political and legal judgment. But by putting a bulls-eye on the venerated attorney, Obama's aides made it harder on themselves to hire anyone with Washington experience as they ramp up through the summer. Anyone with any federal pleaders as clients, they were suggesting, will be fair game. The Culvahouse gambit is similar to the foolish campaign promise Bill Clinton made in 1992 when he vowed to reduce White...
...Ohio and Culvahouse episodes were, most likely, spur of the moment errors. Harder to explain is the Patti Solis Doyle Miscalculation. Hillary Clinton abruptly sent Solis Doyle into purgatory several months ago when her campaign stumbled. So when Obama tapped Solis Doyle to take charge of his eventual running mate, he was sending a visible-from-space signal that Clinton would not be named to the number two spot. And what good did that serve at the very moment the campaign was trying to woo Clinton's donors, court her ardent supporters and win over the candidate herself? "Just stupid...
...other African leaders, the most influential power in the region, South Africa and its President, Thabo Mbeki, has been ineffective in its efforts to temper Mugabe's excesses. Zimbabwe will now most likely be left to rot behind a wall of international sanctions that will bite its people far harder than its leaders. "Our victory is certain," said Tsvangirai on Sunday. "It can only be delayed." As the people of Burma or North Korea would tell him if they could, under a dictatorship, delays can last a lifetime...
That potential boycott and Akinola's strong language this week will make it much harder for Williams to ignore the fact that a sizable chunk of his Communion, particularly from Africa and conservative dioceses of North America, is no longer interested in discussing questions of how the Communion will deal with homosexual bishops and the blessing of homosexual unions, and appears ready to act unilaterally to get its way. Failure to deal with the conflict could result in a shift in the Communion's center of power away from its English roots and toward its growing, disgruntled churches...