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...Brown ended up winning with a solid 5-point margin, riding a late surge of support. Though he ran a largely upbeat campaign, the mood of the electorate was angry - as evidenced by extraordinarily heavy turnout for a special election. At times, his campaign sounded like an echo of the very themes that carried Obama to victory a little over a year ago. Brown had run against "business as usual" in Washington, and his supporters on Tuesday night chanted, "Yes we can." In case the point still wasn't clear, one of his supporters held a hand-lettered sign...
...Kraft too, persistence should pay dividends. While the Illinois-based firm has looked sickly in recent quarters, Cadbury has shone. The British business boasts "dominant positions, strong emerging market exposure and the potential for massive margin improvements," Andrew Wood, an analyst with the financial firm Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. "Kraft," he added, "will benefit from all of Cadbury's strengths." And at a knockdown price. Bagging the firm for a value equivalent to 13 times Cadbury's profit before tax and other deductions amounts to the cheapest food-industry takeover in more than...
...that House liberals object to many provisions in the more-conservative Senate legislation. The second is that more-conservative Democrats may well be so rattled by the victory of a Republican in Massachusetts that they could reconsider their own support for the measure. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has little margin to work with; the bill passed her chamber in November by only five votes...
Juniors Emma Markley and Jackie Alemany started the rally for Harvard, as Alemany assisted her classmate on a layup that brought the margin back within single digits...
Fitzsimmons also noted that the number of applications from students interested in engineering, physical sciences, and computer science increased by a greater margin than did applications as a whole. He noted that there has been "quite a bit of interest" in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which was established...