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...federation's annual meeting this past weekend - 2,000 native leaders in a massive convention hall in Anchorage - Stevens sent a video message apologizing for having to miss the meeting, and asked for the prayers of Alaska natives. At the end of his video, says Mitchell, the entire audience rose and gave Stevens a standing ovation. Their solidarity could be important in the election - Alaska natives comprise one-sixth of the state's population...
...fitting that Barack Obama brought his closing-argument speech to Pittsburgh: this is a city of many lives, one born in a cradle of steel and promise that collapsed and rose again and knows something about reinvention. "The American story has never been about things coming easy," Obama said. "It's about seeing the highest mountaintop from the deepest of valleys." This hilly city is as good a place as any to come for that kind of view. It is, according to the August census report, the fifth-poorest city in the country, and yet it ranks as among...
Obama's family in Hawaii has kept a relatively low profile through his campaign. But his grandmother was anything but low key during her career. Dunham was a trailblazer in her day in the 1960s and 1970s, a Caucasian female who rose in 1970 to become one of the first two female vice presidents at Bank of Hawaii, the islands' largest bank at the time. After she retired in the mid-1980s, she has mainly kept to herself in the Beretania apartment, cared for mostly by Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. Soetoro-Ng does appear on her brother...
...Arabia, Britain, the U.S. and China. Despite Zardari flying to those countries in recent weeks to make his case, he has yet to secure the loans needed to avoid a default on Pakistan's debt. Pakistani officials insist that they have no intention of defaulting, and the Pakistani rupee rose this week amid signs that the International Monetary Fund might step in to rescue this frontline state in the war on terror. The IMF confirmed Wednesday that it would soon enter discussions with Pakistan over ways to assist its economy. But help from the international community will almost surely...
Industry Downturn. The National Business Travel Association found in a recent survey that corporate travel managers are eliminating all non-essential travel. No surprise, considering the tanking economy and rising airline fares; costs of domestic business trips rose $140 to $175 per person over last year, and international trips went up $315 to $400. Employees who travel are even being asked to stay the weekend, returning on Sunday, so T&E can book lower-fare tickets. Next thing you know, they'll start charging you for blankets...