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...par 4, 414 yard 18th hole, Obama approached his ball in the middle of the fairway and hit a shot that flew low and straight for about 75 yards before landing at the front, center-edge of the green. More than 100 people sitting on a rock wall along the fairway applauded as Obama approached and he put his gloved right hand to his mouth to signal for quiet pointing to another member of his group who was getting ready to shoot...
Borrowing heavily from features of the failed House and Senate plans, the Treasury plan requires that labor costs be on par with those of the nonunionized automakers but gives the companies until the end of 2009. It eliminates the job bank and requires that half of the future payments to the retiree health-care trust, VEBA, be made with stock. Further, it requires that debt be cut by two-thirds through a debt-for-equity exchange. Though these are terms of the loan, they are described as "targets," meaning exceptions can be made if there is deemed...
Blagojevich dismissed Nixon's corruption as par for the political course, asserting (like many Nixon defenders) that the Kennedys did far worse things than anything that happened in Watergate. He admired Nixon for his great ambitions and for his efforts to do big things in office such as the rapproachment with China. As for Watergate, Blagojevich used to say that had the President just burned the tapes, it would have been a footnote in history...
...teacher quality. Why? It's cheaper and more palatable politically. Of course, it's better to have a good teacher than a poor one. But if you put the best teacher in a run-down school with a class of 35 students, most of them not up to par with their class level and some with developmental and discipline problems, that teacher is not likely to be able to teach effectively. Seymour Amlen, New York City...
...Meisel, who is a former chair of The Crimson’s editorial board, maintains that attending one of these LGBT targeted events is on par with attending any other company event...