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...dread looking at Wall Street tomorrow. It's not going to be a pleasant sight," Senate majority leader Harry Reid said with a twisted smile, both hands gripping the top of the lectern on the Senate floor late Thursday evening, before a compromise plan passed by the House on Wednesday went down to predictable defeat on the Senate floor by a vote of 52 to 35 (failing to meet the 60-vote threshold to cut off a filibuster). The last time Congress failed to pass a bailout plan that most had assumed was a done deal, the Dow Jones industrial...
...firm didn’t weight proportionally the number of respondents in each category.” Although Nolan requested more time to study the data presented by the consultants—an idea that initially was supported by some other members—the committee ultimately agreed to pass the recommendations as presented after being urged to do so by Barbara Allen, the district’s human resources director. Allen said that the best course of action would be to follow the set time line, especially coming into the holiday season...
...intriguing conclusion from a body of work by Harvard social scientist Dr. Nicholas Christakis and his political-science colleague James Fowler at the University of California at San Diego. The pair created a sensation with their announcement earlier this month of a 20-year study showing that emotions can pass among a network of people up to three degrees of separation away, so your joy may, to a larger extent than you realize, be determined by how cheerful your friends' friends' friends are, even if some of the people in this chain are total strangers...
...need of new leadership. The country has a problem that goes far beyond a disease outbreak: Mugabe is a corrupt and dangerous dictator, and he must go. Even if the cholera epidemic eases—and hopefully it will—the world must not let this tragedy pass without increasing pressure on Mugabe to abdicate power.Although we encourage and applaud Western efforts to lend relief to this troubling situation, those actions are not enough. Seeds of change are more likely to be successful if sewn closer to the root of the problem. To this end, the African Union...
...vote was expected to pass easily in the House of Commons where the opposition holds a 163 of the 308 seats...