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...admirers said looked pulled out of GQ. He also had his father-in-law's help with strategy, and he became the first Democrat elected governor of Illinois since the 1970s. He also had a bit of luck. His Republican opponent's last name was also Ryan (though Jim Ryan is not related to the disgraced former governor), which helped tar the GOP candidate with the outgoing governor's problems. Even so, Blagojevich won with a relatively narrow 52% of the vote...
...Since Goldman Sachs’s Jim O’Neil started promoting his dream of the BRICs—developing markets in Brazil, Russia, India and China—in 2001, Brazil has often been considered the ugly duckling of the group. Next to a former superpower and two ancient civilizations boasting over one billion citizens, the South American giant may have seemed Lilliputian. But the global economic crisis has made a huge difference. Brazil’s admirable resistance to the current turmoil vindicates its placement. It also strengthens the judgment that the B-side of the BRIC...
...order to prevent its release into the atmosphere. “We’re looking to bring together an interdisciplinary team of faculty from across the University to look at the very real difficulties associated with implementing carbon capture and storage systems and technologies,” said Jim I. Clem, the center’s managing director. “This is a challenge that requires a broad spectrum of perspectives.” The assembled team will include representatives from the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as the Business School and Law School, Clem said. The researchers...
...perceptions over which black Americans had no control. Sugrue strives to connect the struggles for rights in the North and South. It was Northerners’ success in gaining access to public buildings—such as movie theaters and restaurants—that helped the South start overcoming Jim Crow Laws. The Northern strategy of gathering outside public buildings to which blacks were denied admittance, calling the cops, and thus creating a non-violent spectacle provided the essential format for Southern protests such as sit-ins. But Sugrue argues that the North fought just as long and hard...
...DeMint, Jim •failure of new Capitol Visitor Center to make a big deal about religion - even though it's merely a tourist attraction and not a house of worship, so why should it? - is decried...