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...voters and absentee ballots. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has recruited 300 volunteer lawyers in the state to be ready at polling places in case voters are challenged Election Day. The campaign has also set up a central call-in center in case someone needs to make a complaint or seek guidance. Polls open 8 a.m. Mountain Standard Time and close twelve hours later. By Pat Dawson / Billings...
...Putin's instinct is to desperately seek to reassert control. Last week he unveiled a plan to stanch the capital flow out of Russia, blocking banks from turning bailout funds from the government into foreign currency. But it's not clear that such moves will stop the political cronies long installed in key economic and financial positions from prioritizing their own personal interests, and some fear that restrictions now being clamped onto the financial system will harm the business environment in the long...
...didn’t seek the limelight, he wasn’t just enjoying his 15 minutes of fame,” Norris said. “He’d be there late at night at the law review, and because he was a smoker, he’d be outdoors on the stoop, having a cigarette, working late. It’s a pretty solitary existence there, not a lot of glamor...
...assume higher public office, and the people on the television say that no one’s going to have any money pretty soon. As my father says, “Stranger than fiction...”But have faith! Fear no evil, be not in want—seek out wonderful, undiscovered music, and goodness and love will surely follow. Be forewarned: the road to finding new tracks, as you may know, is unavoidably long and fraught with disappointment. I’ve traveled that road, and know that there are disappointments. You don’t always find...
...campaign. In the real world of Washington, his plan is a mixture of commonplace steps (tweaking income tax rates) and unprecedented measures (a new approach to payroll taxes). The likelihood that he will get anything like the tax package he has outlined - or even that he'll seek all the changes he has promised - is remote as long as the economy is struggling. After all, what's the point of raising corporate taxes when companies aren't profitable or raising capital-gains taxes when stock prices and real estate values are plummeting? Even a gung-ho tax raiser like Representative...