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Former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and erstwhile presidential candidate Howard Dean discussed President Obama, healthcare, and the “50-state strategy” at the Institute of Politics forum last night, before heading to Kirkland House to receive the Harvard College Democrats Leader of the Year award. Dean spoke before a packed audience at the forum, where he focused on the recent evolution in campaigning methods and the ways in which a changing ethos among Americans led to the election of the nation’s first African-American president. “It?...
Avatar is filmed in the old "Spruce Goose" hangar, the 16,000-sq.-ft. space where Howard Hughes built his wooden airplane. The film is set in the future, and most of the action takes place on a mythical planet, Pandora. The actors work in an empty studio; Pandora's lush jungle-aquatic environment is computer-generated in New Zealand by Jackson's special-effects company, Weta Digital, and added later...
...Members of Congress from across the political spectrum - from Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Enzi and Representative Howard (Buck) McKeon to Senators Ted Kennedy and Barbara Mikulski and Representative George Miller - have pledged their support for this legislation. I urge Congress to follow their lead and move quickly to pass it so that I can sign it into law. And I pledge that my Administration will also do its part to help more Americans serve their communities. At this time of economic crisis, when so many people are in need of help, this work could not be more urgent...
...winning the growth game. From 2003 to 2007, Target's annual same-store sales growth averaged 4.6%, while Walmart's clocked in at 2.9%. Over the same period, Target's annual profit growth averaged 16%, while Walmart lagged behind at 10.3%. "Target was frying Walmart's brains out," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail investment-banking and consulting firm...
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