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...Inaugural exposure. "This is something you get once in a lifetime. J. Crew will take this and run with it." Betty Chen, an equity analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, predicts an immediate bump in J. Crew's children's clothing sales. She points to Michelle Obama's late-October appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. On the heels of news reports that Sarah Palin hoarded a $150,000 wardrobe budget, Leno jokingly asked Michelle if she paid "$60-, $70,000 for that outfit." Obama bragged, "Actually, this is a J. Crew ensemble." Chen says sales of that yellow...
...late night jokes...
...very lucky and very good, Obama may be able to get U.S. foreign policy out of the red by late in his first term. If the economy starts growing again, if the U.S. troop presence in Iraq drops without a return to anarchy, if there's a real thaw with Iran and if the outlines of a political settlement take shape in Afghanistan, then Obama will have an opportunity to define his agenda rather than having America's weakness define it for him. If he has the chance, my guess is he'll revive a vision that has intrigued progressive...
...capital's various power centers. He did an interview at the Washington Post. He dined with leading conservative thinkers at George Will's suburban Maryland home. He rubbed elbows with his former colleagues on Capitol Hill, grabbed a bite at Ben's Chili Bowl and took a late-night tour of the Lincoln Memorial. He also paid quiet visits to both Arlington National Cemetery and Walter Reed Army Medical Center...
...spent the night at the home of relatives, trying to get information on the whereabouts of my brother, whose home had been raided by Israeli troops the previous night. He was detained, and his wife was left at home with Israeli soldiers pointing their rifles at her head until late in the evening. When my sister-in-law finally called us after the soldiers left, she was frantic with worry. It wasn't until the next morning, Friday at 6 a.m., that we found out what had happened to him. The Israeli soldiers had held him all night, blindfolded...