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...described as an “inspiring leader” by Caroline Kennedy, was honored for her work in Upwardly Global, the organization that helps college-educated immigrants regain their careers after moving to the United States...
...that round over the Republicans, but that victory and all the others will be forgotten unless she can regain control over her own caucus. She didn't just politely suggest that people vote for Murtha; she fought hard. Her lieutenants plied the House with phone calls and none-too-subtle threats, including suggestions that anyone who bucked her might lose committee assignments. After Hoyer still drubbed Murtha by a vote of 149-86, Pelosi emerged from the ballot room and pronounced Hoyer's win "a stunning victory." By the look on her face, she meant it. Pelosi went to Hoyer...
...right to escape his defender and skated in on goal. Though his shot was saved by Bulldogs goaltender Alec Richards, the rebound slid out to captain Dylan Reese at the right post for an easy score, tying the game 1-1 at 10:09. But Yale managed to regain the lead by the first intermission, as winger Sean Backman beat Richter with a shot into the right-side netting to put the Bulldogs ahead 2-1 at 15:44. “Even though we carried the play in spurts,” Donato said, “Yale played...
...programs at taxpayer expense. Republicans should wait for the House to pass several such programs and then expose not only the proposals themselves but also the impact that they will have on the deficit and on taxes. Once we reestablish ourselves as the party of fiscal conservatism, we will regain our support in middle America and put the Democrats on the defensive. We do have to mean it, though—simple grandstanding is not good enough...
...another question. He and his Sandinista comrades were global guerrilla heroes when they overthrew the brutal dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979. As Nicaragua's Marxist comandante, Ortega was widely criticized for being as incompetent and corrupt as he was authoritarian. Those who know him say his quest to regain the presidency--he lost elections in 1996 and 2001--stemmed less from leftist ideals than from a raw need to accumulate power and avenge his 1990 humiliation. In 2000 he formed an alliance with President Arnoldo Alemn--a right-wing Somoza acolyte who was later jailed for embezzlement--that helped...