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...Graham's attempt to expand the negotiations, the discussions are further complicated by the fact that Hill Democrats don't have a good fix on votes and don't believe the White House does either. "I don't think they've done the legwork to determine if they have the votes," says a senior Democratic aide...
...searches for a corporate phone number on a site like Hoovers.com and calls to make sure the opening is legit. That simple process leads her to toss about a third of the postings she receives. On larger sites like Monster and CareerBuilder, there's no one doing that legwork for you. And the scammers are definitely out. The Canadian version of Monster was one of the sites Pierre used. (Read about why women are doing better in the recession...
...legwork paid off in the form of a final bill that is hard to oppose. A truism of Washington politics is that everybody talks about common ground but nobody likes it - at least, until they're in danger of being the only ones standing in the way. The process also inspired some participants to respond in good faith; several Catholic endorsers who do not support contraception did not let that stop them from giving their full backing to the bill. President Barack Obama provided an additional boost in his commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame, in which...
...been in custody since Nov. 26, the first night of the attacks. Ansari, who was arrested last February, was found to be carrying a rough drawing of Mumbai landmarks. Sabahuddin, who was arrested for allegedly planning a bomb targeting Bangalore's Indian Institute of Sciences, is accused of doing legwork for the Mumbai attack. Both were brought to Mumbai late last year to be tried jointly with Qasab...
...prominence with 55 paid staffers, including Huffington. Twenty-eight of them are editorial, compared with more than 1,000 at the New York Times. Open the site on any given day and you will be greeted with copy from the Associated Press, contributions from unpaid writers, stories whose legwork was done by other news outlets and a smattering of entries from the site's five reporters. In terms of traditional newspaper content, that's about the level of a solid small-town daily...