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...interest in Beckham isn't new. Meanwhile, the team, owned by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, narrowly missed signing him before he committed to Los Angeles. And their interest in Beckham may not be simply for his ability to cross a ball from the right and bend a free kick: His global celebrity appeal has been proven to sell millions of replica jerseys all over the world for his previous European clubs, and signing him clearly had as much to do with marketing as with his skills...
...think there’s increasing recognition within the Armed Forces that this is a counterproductive strategy,” he said in a interview with The Advocate, a gay news magazine, earlier this year. “We’re spending large sums of money to kick highly qualified gays or lesbians out of our military, some of whom possess specialties like Arab-language capabilities that we desperately need. That doesn’t make us more safe...
...kick-starting the economy: Finding the new driver of our economy is going to be critical. There is no better potential driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy ... That's going to be my No. 1 priority when I get into office, assuming obviously that we have done enough to just stabilize the immediate economic situation. We've got a boat with a lot of leaks, and we need to get it into port. That's what the financial rescue package is about. But once we get it into port, once the credit markets...
...Overnight, [people who worked in banks] have been placed in that second-hand car salesman category," says Morgan. To cope with these feelings, many out-of-work bankers and traders are heading to their health clubs to fill their time, work out their aggression and get their endorphins to kick...
...weekend also kick-started Harvard’s Sustainability Week, a University-sponsored celebration of green initiatives that the EAC has been heavily involved in running it over the next several days...