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...Mark Twain and Will Rogers shared a sentiment. As Twain said, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore...
...When Virginia's Democratic Senator Mark Warner asked the SEC nominee if "we needed prohibition of some financial instruments?, she answered cautiously: "We will explore prohibiting some instruments." She added that one big problem was turf wars among regulatory agencies. "Regulators need to cooperate," she said. "We haven't shared in past, we need a maximum number of eyes" to stop fraud...
...have done was compete,” co-captain Chris Clayton said. “After reading period and exams everyone is hungry to get out and play.”Harvard did more than simply compete, though, posting a 15-13 singles record and a 9-8 doubles mark against National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national champion UAM and a talented Marist squad.“[The invitational] went great,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “Most of the team did a very fine job against that high level...
...cast of the scandal in Portland, Ore., has a certain ring to it: Sam Adams. Bob Ball. Beau Breedlove and his dog Lolita ... "Everyone has porn names!" says Mark Wiener with a laugh. "Until yesterday, it had never occurred to me that the worst offending name was mine." Wiener (pronounced Wee-ner) is one of Oregon's most influential political consultants and a former - and now disheartened - campaign adviser to the protagonist in this political soap opera. That would be Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland and the first openly gay man to lead a major American city. Then...
...responded positively to Bolivia's vote. Responding to a reporter's question, acting State Department Spokesman Robert Wood said, "we congratulate the Bolivian people on the referendum... we look forward to working with the Bolivian Government in ways we can to further democracy and prosperity in the hemisphere." Says Mark Weisbrot, director of the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research: "it's a hopeful sign" for the future of relations between the two countries. The previous U.S. administration would most likely have remained silent on Bolivia's electoral processes...