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...most innocuous result, however. If these students, who almost certainly take pride in their financial acumen, have any political or business aspirations, they will eventually plague the broader community with their gouging methods. Given our current economic crisis and the recent impeachment of Illinois governor Rod R. Blagojevich (Senate seat: $500,000/OBO), there has been renewed discussion about ethical practices of our business and political leaders. Perhaps these leaders developed their avarice-driven ways in college, under the guise of entrepreneurship...
...obsessed by politics.” At the Law School, Davis won the Best Oralist Award in the prestigious Ames Moot Court Competition, and after graduation, he went on to work at Alabama’s Southern Poverty Law Center and as a federal prosecutor. Davis took his congressional seat after narrowly defeating Earl F. Hillard, a black democrat, in the 2002 primary. He has been in congress for the past seven years. —Staff Writer Laura G. Mirviss can be reached at lmirviss@fas.harvard.edu...
...your computer in front of the TV and post much quicker," Stein says. But it was decided that he should attend, a decision that seemed all the wiser when he got a call from the press office confirming his appearance and letting him know he had a good seat. "I knew then that I'd probably get to ask a question," he says. (At the daily briefings, which happen at the other end of the White House in the Briefing Room, he isn't assigned a seat at all.) (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...Jewish state or lose their voting rights; and he is demanding that borders be re-drawn so that more than 100,000 Israeli Arabs, against their will, would become part of a future Palestinian state. Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is expected to garner 18 to 19 seats, bumping the venerable old Labor party, headed by ex-premier and current defense minister Ehud Barak, 66, into fourth place. As for the rest of the 120-seat Knesset, according to the latest polls, Likud is expected to win 25 to 27 seats there; Kadima 23 to 25 seats...
...first time we've had one," he says. Indeed, back in 1998, Denisov says mysteriously, "it was a crisis that helped us move a step ahead." Business, both insist, has not been affected. But press Petrov on prospects for the year and he shifts uneasily in his seat. "We will be making some corrections," he finally concedes. Putin himself couldn't have put it better. The question is, Just how much pain will Russians have to endure before the government makes the corrections that are so desperately needed...