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...Pelosi has been happy to let Travis be Travis. She let him carry a bill to protect gun ownership in the District of Columbia as well as an amendment to restrict the hiring of illegal immigrants. "She's never tried to arm-twist me, and I appreciate that," Childers says. "She told me when I was sworn in, You represent north Mississippi, and you answer to nobody else...
...HHPR editors pulled down their Web site earlier this week in order to restrict access to Light’s article, reasoning that removing the content from just one issue would suggest that they had removed Light’s article as a result of pressure from the JHE editors...
...financial markets, banks became nervous about parting with funds, credit tightened, and stock markets plunged. South Korea has been looking particularly vulnerable to further turmoil. With some $80 billion of its banks' foreign debt maturing by mid-2009, investors worried the country could face a credit crunch that would restrict lending throughout the economy. Those fears have punished Korean stocks and the country's currency. The won plummeted nearly 10% on Oct. 16, its biggest one-day drop since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Standard & Poor's last week also put seven South Korean banks on negative credit watch...
...encouraging reading. “People who physically read newspapers read a lot more than online,” she said. “The internet complements the physical newspaper.” Maghran said that USA Today would also handle delivery, signs, and ID card-readers that would restrict newspaper pick-up to Harvard students. —Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reached at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...
...Palin’s nomination to the Republican presidential ticket, FFL issued the following statement: “…[W]e are not anti-choice. We are pro-life…” FFL’s positions against not only abortion, but contraception as well. restrict pregnant women’s choices to one: the choice of having a baby. Although FFL wants to pander to both sides of the debate, its absolutist pro-fetus stance makes the choice for women, rather than allowing them to choose for themselves. Failing to recognize the central tenet...