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...actually pictured on the side of the plane that you're flying to Vegas in? >I'd heard that, but I don't know. I don't know yet. These Sports Illustrated people, they know how to hold a secret. Let's wait...
...Real concern will come if the undertow moves to other parts of the economy which have been expected to hold up fairly well. Technology sector firms including Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), IBM (IBM), and Microsoft (MSFT) have cut large numbers of people, although they are still extremely profitable. Another set of broad layoffs among these companies would be extremely bad news. The reaction to increasing unemployment will worsen if job losses spread to the large energy companies and media conglomerates...
...reduction in the city’s teaching staff and a corresponding increase in class sizes, just as City Hall was turning its focus to boosting school performance. The city cannot look to the state for help, as Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 has promised to hold education spending constant, but not to increase it for struggling districts...
...people and damaged a Blockbuster outlet in north Bogota last month was one of several recent bombings that security officials have linked to the FARC. Meanwhile, the rebels continue to traffic cocaine, a lucrative business that provides the guerrillas some 70% of their income. In addition, the guerrillas still hold 23 police and army NCOs as bargaining chips for a prisoner swap, and are still kidnapping regular civilians for ransom. "The fact that they released a few prisoners is welcome," says Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. "But I don't see any fundamental change...
Since he took office Obama has reached out to the GOP, even though the Democrats hold large majorities in both chambers of Congress. The President made an unprecedented trip to the Hill to meet with the Republican conferences, invited select GOP Senators to meet him with him in the Oval Office, at times one-on-one, and called numerous senators to convince them to come on board. In recent days, though, as the bill languished before the Senate his tone turned sharper. "The American people did not choose more of the same," Obama said at a White House meeting Friday...