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...news for McCain could be good news for Barack Obama, who has been leading among independent voters in recent polls and has tailored his message to focus on his ability to work across party lines. His first TV ad in New Hampshire featured a Republican, Illinois state senator Kirk Dillard, praising Obama for bipartisanship during his eight years in the state senate...
...Canadian sawmill that made money," says Russ Taylor, president of forestry consultancy International Wood Markets Group. Nova Scotia's biggest Christmas-tree grower shipped a quarter of a million balsam firs this year, mostly to U.S. stores. Next year they're shutting up shop in Canada altogether, says Mac Kirk at Kirk Forest Products. The strong loonie eroded all their profits. "It is loony," Kirk says...
...judging by the report, Mitchell didn't have much success until baseball hit a home run in April, when Kirk Radomski, a clubhouse attendant for the New York Mets between 1995 and 2005, pleaded guilty to providing anabolic steroids and human growth hormone to dozens of players and their associates. In exchange for what presumably will be a lighter sentence - he faces up to 25 years - Radomski agreed to cooperate with Mitchell's investigation. The Radomski probe also connected Mitchell's team to Clemens' trainer, McNamee. Cohen notes that it's certainly "unusual" for a private actor like Major League...
...Moreover, such collusion in the '80s was apparently widespread. Stars like Morris, Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Kirk Gibson and Carlton Fisk were all mysteriously offered bad deals, if any deals at all. Collusion is easier to prove if a group of players are being shortchanged. Aside from Rodriguez, this year's free agency class is a notably weak. It most likely won't take a conspiracy to hold salaries in check. There's no need to collude against first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz...
...concentrator in East Asian Studies, Kirk finds that her cultural distance from her field of choice can actually be an intellectual advantage. “A lot of the difficulty in working with heritage students is breaking down the preconceived notions that they have, whereas if you’re not Chinese, you’re not entering it with all these cultural notions that you don’t even know you have,” she says...