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...institutional and constitutional reform, including changes to parliament itself, in June. Many conservatives have already expressed concern over such measures and are looking to the left as possible allies to turn them away. If that happens, Sarkozy may soon be hearing more parliamentary applause of the sort he'd prefer to avoid...
...anything to increase his chances among voters who do mind his race, but might be persuaded to vote for him anyway. Elderly whites who might not have the most enlightened racial views might be swayed by warnings that McCain would privatize Social Security. Blue-collar whites might prefer Obama's economic policies. Surrogates like Jim Webb and Bob Casey might help with crucial Scots-Irish and Catholic voters...
...yeah. (Laughs.) I absolutely would. I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. With a mental illness, it's confusing. It's disorienting. It's profoundly psychologically affecting. It affects your identity. It affects your feeling about who you get to be in society, because there is an enormous stigma attached to it. I don't think anyone would choose to be associated with something that many people see as helpless, hopeless, freakish. However, the flip side of that is having this illness has really forced...
...annual meeting went on as usual. There was Buffett onstage with his trademark can of Coke--he used to prefer Pepsi, but that would be bad form now that he owns nearly a tenth of Coca-Cola. Next to him was Munger, his friend since 1959, whose acerbic attitude and tendency to soapbox only underscored Buffett's imperturbability...
...luxury one Hand-crafted in frost-resistant clay by British company Green & Blue, Birdball derives its shape from the spherical forms that blue tits and coal tits prefer to construct when left to make nests on their own. At about $60, this chic number doesn't come cheap, but some experts reckon there's no better answer to the nesting urge. www.birdball.co.uk...