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...Dingell, a Michigan member of the DNC, pointed out that one of the perennially pampered primary states, New Hampshire, also broke newly established party rules last year by defensively moving its own primary to an earlier date - and the DNC allowed it. Even discounting that apparent hypocrisy, Florida Democrats insist that the moves by their state and Michigan should have indicated to the DNC that the rules were antiquated and flawed, and therefore required some flexibility. "I detest this ruling," says U.S. Representative Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's Florida campaign director. "This should have been a wake-up call...
...plans come after two rough quarters for Starbucks, which saw traffic and comparable-stores sales in its U.S. business fall for the first time ever. The slip is partly due to softening consumer spending, but Starbucks executives insist that by retraining the company on a coffee-centric customer experience, they can revive sales and the brand. "This is in many ways self-induced," says Schultz. "That's why I feel so confident and optimistic we can fix it ourselves...
...height,” the 6-foot-1 Kuld said. “The best teams and players are not only skilled but they’re huge. In beach volleyball you can get way with being shorter and still be great.”The Crimson players insist that Kuld’s play on the beach has had a positive impact on the team’s success. The versatile star has improved his ball control drastically, increased his vertical leap, and adjusted easily between the sand and the hardwood. Since beach volleyball features only two people...
Obama did what politicians so rarely do - acknowledge complexity, insist that the issue currently roiling the presidential campaign - the story of Jeremiah Wright's words - is not a story that is clear-cut between right and wrong, or between black and white for that matter. Having waged a campaign, with great success, on the notion that race as a political and electoral issue could be transcended, with a strategy that assiduously downplayed race, Obama declared today that the only way to transcend race is to focus on it rather than downplay it - to acknowledge its sometimes oppressive presence in American...
...Donato and his captains insist, however, that the team can’t pay attention to NCAA speculation. There is only one thing in their hands: taking care of business against Quinnipiac. If they can do that, then perhaps the rest will follow...