Word: heart
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...poem "If" to underline his refusal to give in to his critics and to march on through the controversies of December. On Tuesday, coincidentally Kipling's 143rd birthday, Blagojevich threw another press conference. But the embattled governor could have taken a few other words from the poet to heart: "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors...
...preeminent scholar of national security, democratization, civil-military relations, and strategy—whose expertise touched legions of students and policymakers—died of congestive heart failure and complications related to diabetes at the age of 81 last week on Martha’s Vineyard, according to wife Nancy A. Huntington...
...back-and-forth can feel esoteric, but, in fact, it goes to the heart of solving the problem. "If losing firms are sucking up all the credit, then isn't the [correct] policy response to let banks cancel lines of credit?" asks Octavio Marenzi, CEO of the banking consultancy Celent, who joined the debate in December with his own paper, called "Flawed Assumptions about the Credit Crisis." After going through a reckoning of the aggregate data - including the fact that consumer credit hit a record high in September 2008 - Marenzi put forth a couple of possible explanations, including "that policymakers...
...default tradition for most Americans. Some pastors understand the cultural emphasis but consider it an obstacle to focusing on the spiritual messages of Christmas. "We've seen churches embrace the Americana idea of Christmas," says Michael Hidalgo, lead pastor at the multi-denominational Denver Community Church. "Their heart is in the right place, but in some ways they end up looking like Target celebrating Christmas." Others, though, have accepted the idea that Christmas Day is a time for family instead of religious reflection. "I think it is our job to get Christmas off on the right foot...and then...
...stone wall to get closer to the water. The sun was out and the wind was blowing strongly. More than a dozen people headed over the wall and down the rocky shoreline with them. The ceremony appeared to further cement Obama's emotional ties to Hawaii. "In his heart and in his soul he is a child of Hawaii," says Andy Winer, the state Director for the Obama campaign. "This is where his roots are and where his values come from...