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...about half of the enlarged Kansas City council's 1,700 acres of camps are being "rested" for a year while final decisions are made about their fates. That includes Camp Oakledge, a 420-acre lakefront retreat in the Missouri Ozarks with a mile of shoreline. To some, "rested" is just a way of saying that the camps will be sold. "It's difficult, but it's necessary to ensure the future of this organization," says Girl Scout spokeswoman Gina Garvin of the Kansas City area. Camps cost the council $1.7 million last year, so something has to give...
...Certainly Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow - along with three of their colleagues from other states whose economies depend on the auto industry, including Republicans Kit Bond of Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio - felt their plan was sufficient. At a much subdued press conference held right after Reid and Pelosi's wrapped up, they unveiled their compromise, which would pull the $25 billion from a fund approved earlier this year to help the auto industry develop more fuel-efficient cars; that notion had actually been pushed by Republicans earlier in the week, but until Thursday, Democrats had contended...
...left their mark on the office (except Jimmy Carter, who kept Gerald Ford's décor). L.B.J. installed a bank of televisions. On the Resolute desk, used by 21 of the past 24 Presidents, Harry Truman placed his THE BUCK STOPS HERE SIGN (the reverse read I'M FROM MISSOURI). And while its darker hours saw Richard Nixon's secret taping sessions and, in adjoining rooms, Bill Clinton's trysts with Monica Lewinsky, the Oval Office is where the President comes to draw the nation together--as Ronald Reagan did after the Challenger disaster, or George W. Bush after 9/11...
...Rust Belt roots, a place where Obama's reputation and early ground game could have maximum impact. It was no accident that on election night, Obama captured six of the states that ring Illinois, including three - Ohio, Iowa and Indiana - that John Kerry lost in 2004. (Obama lost adjacent Missouri by less than 5,000 votes...
...turn this unified ambition into reality, Havard will look to draw as much experience as possible from tournaments before the Ivy season in February. With four matchups against top 25 teams–including No. 5 Missouri, No. 19 Old Dominion, and No. 23 Virginia at the Northeast Collegiate Duals this month—Harvard will have its hands full during the winter...