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...being a professional spy and knowing the difference between a "live drop" and a "dead drop." A professional from the ranks would be eaten up by Hillary Clinton at State or Bob Gates at Defense. Or he or she would end up like Bill Clinton's CIA director, Jim Woolsey, who was shut out of the White House, ignored, and became irrelevant...
...sworn in, the Democrats will enjoy their largest majority in the Senate since 1979, of 59 seats. The nine other freshmen who are being sworn in Tuesday with no controversy include Mark Begich of Alaska; Kay Hagan of North Carolina; Mike Johanns of Nebraska; Jeff Merkley of Oregon; Jim Risch of Idaho; Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Mark and Tom Udall, cousins from Colorado and New Mexico, respectively; and Virginia's Mark Warner...
...dark year is now over, but automakers don't yet see the dawn. Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., says he expects sales in the first quarter of 2009 to be similar to those in the fourth quarter of 2008 - dreadful. While the outlook remains too uncertain for any consensus to emerge on full-year 2009 sales, carmakers are hoping to see some signs of life this spring. "We could see year-over-year comparisons improve (i.e., not be down so much!) starting in April 2009 because the market really collapsed in April 2008," says Rebecca Lindland...
...left government under a good standing, and this is not a way to re-enter it."- Jim Durkin, Republican spokesman on the Illinois House impeachment panel, www.chicagobreakingnews.com...
...partnership between the show's key pilots, Jim Henson and Joan Ganz Cooney: "It was Henson who helped the grandest and most ambitious experiment in children's television find its legs ... Henson's touch helped definitively establish Sesame Street's 'delicate balance between fun and learning,' as he once described it. Cooney understood from the show's earliest days, back before it became a brand of excellence here and around the globe, that using television to teach the alphabet and counting to twenty would have been a noble effort, but not nearly as much fun, without...