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...impact was greater because Britain's growing wealth has fueled growing inequality. The gap between rich and poor is only slightly narrower in the U.K. than in the U.S. and yawns much wider than in other European countries. Social mobility has stalled. The gulf between City financiers and low-income Londoners is profound. "The bankers look down from their gleaming towers in the City, and they see a depressed and depressing East End," says Dominic Carman, the parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrat Party in Barking. "From the East End, the City looks like an El Dorado of gleaming spires...
Calls for Holder to resign - coming now from Republicans like Lamar Alexander - aren't likely to move either the Attorney General or his boss. Holder says he won't budge, even if Obama eventually overrules his KSM decision. "I don't think it would have any impact on the relationship I have with him," Holder says. "I'm committed to making sure that he is as successful as he can be." For now, it seems Obama would say the same thing about Holder...
...have tried to be as open as possible in explaining how the downturn has had an impact on our financial capacities and how it has forced us to reconsider the speed and nature of our aspirations,” Faust said...
While the squad is content with its strong starters thus far, Harvard still awaits the return of staff ace Perlman. Twelve months after Tommy John surgery, the hurler was on pace to make an impact this year before experiencing biceps tenderness in practice...
Supporters of the ban fear an exodus from the ranks if it is lifted, but anti-gay ardor has cooled since May 1993 when Senators ventured to Norfolk Navy Base to explore the cramped sleeping quarters aboard a nuclear attack submarine and assess the impact of gays serving openly. Fifteen of 17 military personnel who testified at a hearing on the base that day strongly opposed lifting the ban. While opposition today isn't as high - and the public supports doing away with the ban - it remains a sensitive political issue, as Bill Clinton painfully discovered. He simply wanted...