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Remember when we used to pledge allegiance to a flag? Not in Barack Obama's nation. On the eve of his grandly coordinated, $150 million Inauguration, celeb power couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore released a video full of their Hollywood friends and colleagues pledging to Obama to "be the change" that so many want to see with his incoming Administration. Backed by MySpace and Kutcher's production company Katalyst Media and directed by Moore, The Presidential Pledge features a bevy of instantly recognizable faces (Moore, Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Sean "Diddy" Combs), some you-look-familiar faces (Joel Schumacher, Kenna...
...matter what is said about what the nation will have to bear or suffer during the recession, it will not admit what the cognoscenti already know. The chances that the downturn will be over in a year are tiny. The odds that it will be over in two years are starting...
...over who put money into the firm? Probably very little. The newspaper industry is viewed as a poor investment. Several newspaper chains are already in the process of liquidation, particularly Journal Register and Gatehouse. The third largest newspaper company, McClatchy (MNI) is in deep trouble. A number of the nation's largest dailies, including The Rocky Mountain News, are for sale and some will be closed if they do not find buyers...
...greatly, and an increasing number of students in the next decade and beyond will come from less affluent families who will need to be encouraged to consider higher education,” Fitzsimmons told the Gazette. “Unless we are successful in reaching out to them, our nation will not realize its full potential...
...most of the nation celebrated a hallmark of racial reconciliation on Tuesday, Oakland stood apart. For the past two weeks, the California city has been engulfed by racially tinged protests over the brutal New Years Day killing of 22-year old Oscar Grant III by transit officer Johannes Mehserle. Grant and a few friends were returning home from New Years Eve revelry, when they were stopped by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police for rowdy behavior. As documented by several amateur cell phone videos, Grant, who was unarmed, appeared to act cooperatively. Mehserle, however, threw him facedown onto the ground...