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...good portion of the cutbacks can be attributed to the sport's success. "A couple or three years ago, you had so many new teams coming in," says team owner Rick Hendrick, who fields cars for Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. "You had Toyota coming in with new teams, and there were so many people planning on running multiple teams that the pool of people moving in and being trained just kept growing and growing and growing. It looked like there was no end in sight. All of a sudden, teams can't find sponsors, they shut...
...taking shape in Congress isn't just an act of economic self-interest; it also lets them showcase a less ideological conservatism that they insist voters want in the 21st century. For the camp that includes South Carolina's Mark Sanford, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and Texas' Rick Perry, the legislation is a federal leviathan that lets them display faithfulness to the roots of the GOP as a Big Government slayer. "Rather than devote an unprecedented number of dollars to expanding government," Perry said last week, "they should stimulate the economy with something that actually works: tax cuts...
...groups galvanize their communities by providing everything from social services to job training. His appointment is a gamble for Obama, who risks lending ammunition to critics who say religion remains a secondary issue for the Democratic party. DuBois, who campaigned heavily for Obama's controversial selection of Evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his Inauguration, will also need to deftly navigate the Constitutional separations between church and state that limn his new position. Supporters say the young pastor has an uncanny ability for building relationships with religious leaders of various stripes. He's certainly built one with...
...Helped engineer Obama's participation in Rick Warren's Presidential Forum during the campaign, as well as the decision to tap the Saddleback church pastor for Obama's Inaugural invocation. The choice of Warren, who has espoused controversial views on topics ranging from gay marriage to political assassination, was maligned by many Democrats...
...pastor at a small Pentecostal church in Boston, and he helped make Obama's religious outreach the most extensive and comprehensive yet for a Democratic presidential campaign. He has also been behind some moves that have raised eyebrows, including Obama's participation in last summer's Presidential Forum at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church and, more recently, the selection of the Evangelical author and pastor to deliver the invocation at the Inauguration...