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...Tuesday's mayoral race, Gaydamak - once the prohibitive favorite because of his lead in campaign financing - has had a streak of bad luck. Like many Russian oligarchs, he was hit hard by the global economic crisis. His fortune shrank, forcing him to sell off a major Israeli company at a $100 million loss and to fire nearly all of his radio-station staff. Worse still, Gaydamak, supposedly the model for the title role in the movie The Lord of War (starring Nicolas Cage as an arms dealer in Africa), is one of 42 high-profile defendants on trial in France...
Congratulations, Mr. President-elect. And best of luck averting Depression 2.0! In the meantime, forgive me for reaching for the panic button: with unemployment expected to move into the double digits, I'm looking for a way to survive until you get us out of this mess. So here's what I'm thinking, and please do not tell my wife: I'm planning on turning my basement into a full-service karaoke...
Written on Tuesday by McCain's close aide Mark Salter, the speech also evoked a constant theme of McCain's life, his absolute conviction in his own personal fortune, a run of luck that allowed him to survive five and a half years of imprisonment in Vietnam, multiple cancer scares, and repeated brushes with death as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot. "I have always been a fortunate man," he said...
...Loss upon loss, and no ill luck stirring but what lights upon Uncle Sam's shoulders," The editors of the Troy Post, Sept. 7, 1813. This is frequently but incorrectly cited as the first use of the term
...voter ID card has the right polling place," another asks. "Then you can fill it out and get it back," said another into the phone. "I know it's a lot of work, but it will work. Goodbye - and good luck...