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...role with black voters. His view may be racially sensitive and politically correct, but it fails to explain why more than 95% of blacks voted for Obama. I find it difficult to imagine what factor other than racial solidarity could have produced such overwhelming numbers. Andy Horvath, Elverson, Pennsylvania...
...railroads were worth more alive than dead, so inventive people figured out ways to reorganize them rather than shut them down. "The investment banks and lawyers and managers would negotiate a deal and get the courts to bless it," says David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. "It was a very flexible reorganization process." It was also a uniquely American answer to business failure. The private sector took the lead. Reinvention--and rebirth--was the goal. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...were elected President, or maybe even if she had been nominated, we would have had to go back to the donors and at least disclose everyone that didn't object to it. But I wouldn't have any objection to it." (See pictures of Clinton and Obama battling in Pennsylvania...
...half looking at results from the primaries, gazing at red and blue maps, sitting through every debate and convention speech, and worshipping Nate Silver. Since freshman fall I have been engaging in dinner table discussions with all my American friends, talking about the working-class white vote in Pennsylvania as though I grew up in Scranton...
...since all three companies are already so deep in debt (GM alone owes $48 billion). To that end, the GOP wants a change in leadership at all three companies. "I have yet to see any semblance of a plan for General Motors to become viable," Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor. "General Motors and the auto industry have been on notice for a long time that they were in a very difficult, competitive situation...