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...FRANCISCO, Calif.—Something that definitely didn’t occur to me until I was walking around AT&T Park before Sunday’s Giants game was just how cold the Bay Area is. It’s the beginning of August, probably the hottest time of the year in most places, and the weather report called for a high of 59. But just as I was about to discount both Bay Area teams for this failing of Mother Nature, the morning fog burned off, the sun came out, and it turned into a beautiful...
...would never occur to me, or most black people I know, to offer a police officer a lecture on race or to say, as Gates is alleged to have said, "You don't know who you're messing with." For the most part, we're trained by our mothers to hand over ID, answer all questions politely and keep our hands where they can be seen. But for blacks who've made it to the upper echelons of American society, those old lessons chafe, and you tire of wearing the mask of deference. Moreover, members of the black upper class...
What's more, though British manufacturers, like American ones, put warnings on cigarette packs, the labels do no good if a pack is something you never see. Like other antismoking activists, Irukera believes industry actively promotes single-stick sales (which also occur in Asia, the Americas and elsewhere in the world). But the companies answer that the matter is out of their hands. Says British American spokeswoman Catherine Armstrong: "If retailers choose to break [packs] up and sell them one at a time - which I believe is very widespread across Africa - that's not something we have any involvement with...
...want it done by this fall." But in Washington there is considerable worry that a month-long recess in the company of constituents worried about trillion-dollar deficits could sap whatever momentum remains for sweeping reform. Obama warned legislators not to lose their steel. "Sometimes delays in Washington occur when people just don't want to do anything that they think might be controversial. You know what? That's not how America has made progress in the past...
...hurdles ahead in 2011 and 2012: "Nearly two-thirds of the states already project a budget gap in FY 2011. Of the remaining states, many note that it is simply too early to know if a gap will occur, although several indicated that one is likely. The size of these projected gaps raise warning sirens-loud ones. Several states will need to close double-digit budget gaps yet again...