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...Harvard graduate might have a choice between doing something in public service and investment banking on Wall Street... For people from a low income background, while public service might correlate better with their values, they might not be able to,” he said...
...that time, House Republican leaders were facing a newly elected Democratic President with approval ratings in the 70s and an economy in the tank. After two bruising election cycles in which the GOP lost the White House and both the House and Senate, pundits were predicting they might be at the dawn of another 40-year stint in the minority. President Obama was publicly reaching out to Republicans on the massive stimulus bill, but something made House minority leader John Boehner and No. 2 House Republican Eric Cantor pause at the idea of working hand in hand with Obama...
...might think passengers taking off or landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport would feel unsettled seeing a supersonic Concorde jet mounted on a steel frame alongside the runway, with its needle-like beak pointed upward in take-off position. After all, just such a Concorde plane crashed in a ball of fire nearly 10 years ago, less than two miles (3 km) from where the mounted jet now stands. It was an event that doomed the world's fastest-ever passenger jet - an aircraft designed by French and British engineers - to a future as a museum relic...
...airlines' reputations, however, there is another question at stake in the Concorde trial: Should companies even face criminal charges after their planes crash? Several U.S. safety officials say prosecuting and jailing airline employees could make them too afraid to report maintenance or design flaws, for fear that they might be blamed later for accidents. "If airlines were protected from criminal prosecution, those fears would dissipate," says Michael Barr, an aviation-accident specialist and instructor at the University of Southern California. "You have a whole lot of people who believe that accidents are just that - accidents," he says. That...
...confrontation, behind the scenes, Iran's opposition appears to be exploring the possibility of a compromise. Much of the speculation has centered on the possibility that former President Akbar Hashemei Rafsanjani - a wily power broker who's managed to hold the ever narrowing middle ground between the two camps - might mediate between the opposition and Khamenei. At least one opposition leader, former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, has openly mooted the possibility, though another, former president Mohammad Khatami, publicly denied having sent a letter to that effect to the Supreme Leader. But all three of the highest-profile opposition leaders - Karroubi...