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...White House press conference, Obama thanked most of the major players for their let's-all-take-our-medicine determination, but he criticized a group of financial firms - the holdouts - for their unpatriotic greed. "While many stakeholders made sacrifices," Obama said, "a group of investment firms and hedge funds decided to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout." And then he added, "I do not stand with them...
While some measures may turn out to have been extreme, we have contingency plans for a reason. We still don't know how long this will last or how bad it will get. With any luck, this outbreak will let us know where our defenses need strengthening--without forcing us to rely on them...
...Professor Baber Johansen—who received the e-mail—said that it is unlikely that Munir will return. “There was very little hope for any legal help in this, and that the one thing one could hope is that somehow the immigration would let him finish his degree at Harvard,” he said. “It’s very, very uncertain.” Classmates were surprised when they heard about Munir’s detention. “In a sense it’s even more shocking just...
...Let's be honest - Senator Specter didn't leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record. - Michael Steele, Republican Party chairman, saying he looks forward to Specter's defeat in 2010 (CNN, April...
...Yang says China's nod to let Taiwan in this time was a gesture of goodwill. The WHA is a relatively low-risk international body for China to allow Taiwan to enter, as it is a health body, without strong political implications that could allow Taiwan to be treated as an independent nation. Taiwan has been invited to participate under the agreed upon name "Chinese Taipei" - the same name Taiwan uses for its Olympic team...