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...Department. Any serious opponent of the farm lobby - like the six implausible candidates, including rural-affairs activist Chuck Hassebrook and organic farmer Fred Kirschenmann, that a group of prominent foodies recently suggested to Obama - would get ripped to shreds by the aggies on Capitol Hill. Vilsack probably won't launch a Nixon-goes-to-China initiative to block environmentally destructive biofuels, but he might not resist that kind of initiative coming out of the White House...
...course, Jobs has been staging his own launch events with greater frequency during the past few years. And a number of Apple observers have pointed out that the company has been trying to get out of its relationship with IDG, which runs the Macworld trade show, for years. John Gruber, who runs the well-sourced Apple blog, Daring Fireball, said in an email that he's inclined to accept the press release at face value: "I think that the set-in-stone scheduling of Macworld Expo has always been a thorn in Apple's side. "January looks worse and worse...
...launch date had been set for this year, Harvard’s year-old upper middle income financial aid program might not have been implemented due to the worldwide economic crisis, which has taken an $8 billion bite out of the University’s endowment...
...initiative had been set to launch this year, she said that the circumstances would have been less than ideal...
...recent days, al-Shabaab have all but surrounded Mogadishu and appear poised to launch a new offensive at any time. The transitional government of President Yusuf, set up and backed by Ethiopian troops, has been confined to the town of Baidoa and a tiny wedge of Mogadishu. And the transitional administration seems dead set on emphasizing its transitoriness with infighting. Yusuf's firing of Hussein was dubious at best because the government's charter states that the President needs parliament's approval for such a move. Indeed, the parliament returned to back Hussein by a vote...