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...office, Gingrich says, he "has so far failed to turn around the economic decline." It took the Republicans eight years to get us into this mess with their nonexistent oversight of financial companies and their allowing the deficit to balloon to $10 trillion. In the end, all Gingrich can offer as an answer is Contract with America 2.0--which consists mostly of tax cuts. It's the old trickle-down economics with a fresh paint job. I'd much rather have tax-and-spend Democrats than borrow-and-spend Republicans. David Ingram, ST. LOUIS...
Here's $3,000. Now scram! That's the offer that Japan made on April 1 to unemployed foreigners of Japanese ancestry. These immigrants, mostly from Brazil and Peru, had previously obtained special visas to do manufacturing work in Japan for companies like Toyota. With the number of available jobs at a six-year low, the nation can no longer afford to pay them unemployment benefits and is asking them to leave...
...depends if they're ready to give $50, 60, 70, 80 million. There's a lot of potholes out here.' RICHARD M. DALEY, mayor of Chicago, on whether he would accept KFC's offer to fund street repairs in his city, after the restaurant chain donated $3,000 to Louisville...
...said Reeves. “It’s just not fair for a multi-billion dollar university to take bread out of children’s mouths. Hopefully we can see some more enlightened leadership in the future.” Harvard’s offer of early retirement may be perceived as coercive by workers who feel pressured by the possibility of layoff, said Stephen A. Helfer, a support staff member at Harvard Law School library. “I ask the City Council to use its influence to urge that everybody at the University take...
...even if Prabhakaran could get out, few countries would be willing to accept the LTTE leader. "It is very unlikely that any country will offer asylum to Prabhakaran, as he has an indictment and arrest warrant against him in India and Sri Lanka," Jayasekara says. The Indian government has accused Prabhakaran of ordering the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. "It is more likely that Prabhakaran will get his children out of Sri Lanka to provide inspirational support in the future. The entire family of [Prabhakaran's wife] Madhivadini is in Denmark, and the children will have...