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...going to say "Congratulations" on your nomination to be Treasury Secretary (who knew when we were in Tokyo together in the early '90s that you'd end up with your name on U.S. currency someday?). But I'm not sure congratulations is exactly the right word, given the fiendishly parlous economic times in which we now live. I do wish you luck, though, and in this little missive I'll try to offer a bit of advice...
...created an airline, Midwest Express, in 1984 partly to compensate for the lack of service in Neenah, Wis. (its headquarters at the time) and to optimize the use of its owned or chartered planes. Midwest Express quickly became known for top-rated service, unsurprising coming from a company that knew a little bit about taking care of customers' tushes...
...hours out of our sixteen hour experience. When Courtney and I finally reached Cambridge a little after four in the morning, facing the prospect of waking up in a few hours for a tailgate did not phase us because the weekend sports experience was only half over, and we knew that we had enjoyed the most unique experience thus far. But sitting in the car in the wee hours of the morning and reflecting on a bunch of newly-created memorable moments, I also began to realize that you do not need to do something as extreme as Courtney...
...stands a better chance of winning a new term-limits referendum, which could take place as early as the middle of next year, precisely because he stands a better chance of galvanizing that base than he did last year. "A lot of Chavistas stayed home in 2007 because they knew no matter the outcome, Chávez would still be President the next morning," says Walsh. "This time, they'll feel more urgency, a more heightened sense that their political project is at risk. That will make it very close...
...electoral fraud charge against party executive Yongyuth Tiyapairat. The country's Election Commission, and then the Supreme Court, ruled he had bribed local administrators to campaign for his party during the December 2007 national election. The Constitutional Court was tasked with deciding if the executive boards of each party knew enough about the wrongdoings of its members to justify recommendations by the Election Commission and the Office of the Attorney General that the parties be dissolved...