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...ruling Liberal Party ranked second with 20.1 percent. A September Zogby International poll ranked Montealegre in second place with 19 percent of the vote. “He certainly has a chance,” said Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a non-profit research organization specializing in U.S.-Latin America relations. “The whole question is forming enough coalitions with enough groups to ring up the votes.” Birns said Montealegre is widely perceived as the U.S. government’s preferred candidate. Birns added that officials believe Ortega, the former...
...dish. But we don’t take the penny seriously as a unit of currency; when someone finds one on the ground, his or her first thought is, “Wow, good luck,” not, “Wow, I just made a profit.” According to that, though, the penny doesn’t actually hurt anyone. In fact, the only people who should really care about its fate are people who pay taxes. On Apr. 22, The New York Times reported the updated cost of producing a single penny?...
...Universities are simply not a business,” he said. “Their central focus is not profit and loss. Their goals are much more intangible...
...bizarre but impressive array of accomplishments—Aleksey had a 140-mph tennis serve and a 500-pound bench press, he had authored a book touted as “a unique gendered perspective on the Holocaust,” and he was CEO of a non-profit that helped disadvantaged children...
...Sagan said. “But I see it in my neighborhood newspaper, too.” Blogs, on the whole, act as checks on mainstream news sources and provide unlimited space for information, said panelist Rebecca MacKinnon, the co-founder of Global Voices Online, a non-profit media project sponsored by the Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “In the past, if a journalist didn’t pick up on something...it didn’t go anywhere,” she said. “You don?...