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...status as the Great Humanitarian, a title bestowed for his heroic Belgian food relief during World War I, had long since been tarnished by his refusal as President to countenance direct government assistance to victims of his own country's Depression. After the Inauguration, Hoover and Roosevelt would never meet again. Their shared ride down Pennsylvania Avenue traversed an endless mile in awkward silence. At the Capitol, 100,000 onlookers had assembled under pewter skies, their numbers swelled by millions of expectant radio listeners...
Early last year, Marc Litt, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan, was presented six binders of documents - hundreds of pages each - pertaining to a high-profile investigation. Lawyers wanted to know if Litt would be willing to bring what looked to be a juicy case and they wanted to meet the next...
...Prince has been dating law student Chelsy Davy since 2004. Davy, whose father owns a Zimbabean safari company, did not meet Queen Elizabeth II until 2008. British tabloids frequently publish and then later retract news of the couple's alleged break-ups, citing unsubstantiated rumors...
...crucial factor is that Minnesota already had an election law in place to handle close elections, which mandated a hand recount in contests with a margin of victory smaller than 0.5 percent. Coleman’s razor-thin 0.0075 percent margin of victory over Franken in November failed to meet the cutoff, automatically triggering the recount. Unlike the Florida presidential election in 2000, during which Gore had to fight in court to get a recount, in this case there was no question of whether a recount was in order...
...will still be higher than they were four years ago, before several years of major increases. The blow to Princeton’s endowment will not have significant impacts on students, at least for now. “I’ve told [Financial Aid Director] Robin Moscato to meet every single request and to make sure there is not a single student who leaves because he or she can’t meet the financial obligation to the University,” Tilghman told Princeton University’s news office in November. Students not on financial aid will...