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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...
...anything. You can make one of the lakes look like an ocean. You can do rural. You can do gritty urban." (In Betty Anne Waters, the state also stands in for Boston and part of Rhode Island.) Shooting in Michigan can mean fewer headaches as well. "To shut down major Chicago streets or take over an office building on a weekday? It's unheard of," she says. Betty Anne Waters producer Andrew Sugarman agrees. "This is as good as it gets in terms of U.S. locations," he says. "Strangers come up to us while we're shooting and say, 'Thank...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Donald G. Jones, 78, a Methodist pastor who mentored her in high school, taught her the "importance of social justice," crediting him in her memoir Living History as a major influence in her life...
...field, center field, right field—he just was a tough out. He was a thorn in our side for a couple of years.”After Kantrovitz graduated from Brown, the Cardinals selected their city’s native son in the 25th round of the Major League draft.Playing professionally was just the next step in what Kantrovitz saw as the natural progression of things.“I was just trying to be the starting shortstop on my high school baseball team and then I was trying to be the starting shortstop at Brown...
...Scout Day for head coach Joe Walsh’s hopeful squad, a day on which talent representatives from major league clubs arrive with pens and pads and eyes carefully trained to pick out the best the amateur baseball ranks have to offer. It was a time for Crimson prospects to look their best, but for them and their new student manager, freshman West Resendes, it was also the start of a season, a connection, a bond...