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...According to William Julius Wilson, a Harvard Kennedy School professor and sociologist who has written on race and poverty, the implications of electing Obama would be international in scope...
...that have been married since May recognize. There is no reason why this symbol of love and commitment should be refused for certain people based merely on the gender of their partner. Unfortunately, many arguments mounted against same-sex marriage appeal implicitly to a morality that exists beyond the scope of law. This lack of concrete rationale explains some of the baffling arguments that have been made in favor of Proposition 8. Its proponents in California’s Voter Information Guide, for example, invoke “human history” and utilize scare tactics as a defense...
...potential scale of their future liabilities. The shift means firms will assure you, the employee, of how much they are putting into your retirement fund instead of promising how much you'll end up with. That latter amount will depend on how your investments perform rather than on the scope of your employer's pledge. "When my father was working, he knew what he would retire on," says Williams. "Now the market risk will be borne on the shoulders of employees...
...settlement provides no assurance that the prices charged for access will be reasonable,” Darnton added, “especially since the subscription services will have no real competitors [and] the scope of access to the digitized books is in various ways both limited and uncertain...
Some defense analysts say these attacks, which are similar in scope and sophistication to recent attacks in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Jaipur, could be the work of a jihadi group. Sreeradha Datta, of the Institute of Defense and Security Analysis in New Delhi, sees the influence of Harkat ul Jihad ul Islami, which is based in Bangladesh and has ties to ULFA, or some other jihadi organization operating within India. "This is part of the larger terrorist problem which has gripped India recently," Datta says. "They [ULFA] belong to Assam. They don't want to antagonize the Assamese...