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...quality of defense spending is unlikely to figure prominently when Gates testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Lawmakers are always more concerned about how much money is being spent in their districts, rather than how well it is being spent...
...men’s side, freshman Dan Chenoweth and Brian Hill led the way with victories in their respective events. Chenoweth clocked a personal-best 8:16.45 in winning the 3,000 meters, while Hill also ran a personal-best of 1:54.85 in winning the 800 meters...
...there are many in the party establishment who don't remember the history of that decade quite that way. What they recall is the "triangulation" that made Democrats on Capitol Hill nearly irrelevant. And they are still trying to recover, they say, from the wreckage that was left behind. While Bill Clinton fought his way to being the first Democratic President since F.D.R. to be re-elected, the party lost its majorities in the House and the Senate, as well as in the governors' mansions and statehouses across the country...
What has to be making them nervous is that more and more of the Democratic establishment, particularly on Capitol Hill, is breaking rank with the Clintons?despite the fact that she is leading in the polls and, if elected, may be disinclined to forgive turncoats. Kennedy's defection followed those of 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry (along with many of his biggest fund raisers) and Vermont's Pat Leahy. Obama also counts among his growing list of supporters Senators such as Tim Johnson, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson and Claire McCaskill, as well as governors Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius...
Business for products aimed at the newly divorced, from greeting cards and postbreakup getaway packages to custom-made cakes and joke gifts like wedding-ring coffins, is booming. New Orleans resident Reneé Savant bought a hearse, thinking she would rent it out for over-the-hill-birthday celebrations. But since she began her service last October, the hottest demand has come from clients who want to ride around as they and friends celebrate the death of their marriages. "I would never in a million years have thought the fad would be divorce parties," says Savant...