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...Lewis looks out over the expanse of Central Park - a panoramic view he calls the most beautiful in the world - and describes the last time he exercised that skill. About a month ago, the CEO of Countrywide Financial, Angelo Mozilo, called him to ask for help. The beaten-down mortgage lender, whipping boy for everything that went wrong in last year's mortgage meltdown, was facing rumors of bankruptcy after burning through an $11.5 billion credit line. Lewis had already invested $2 billion of his company's money in Countrywide, a sum by then worth half of that...
...enforcement beyond what we feel is necessary—for instance he voted for a border fence—we recognize that limiting the flow of illegal immigrants is a political prerequisite to immigration reform. Finally, we support Obama’s commitment to expanding the number of high-skill immigrants to our country through to the H-1B visa program.To help reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change, Obama proposes a cap-and-trade system and the corresponding reduction of emissions to 80 percent below the 1990 levels by 2050. Vaulting the U.S. into a leadership position...
...beautiful, beautiful play,” Cahow said. “Deb [Conway] made a nifty play around defenseman Annie Gay, one of the best defenseman in the country. It was top-notch in terms of skill and effort...
...exist are insignificant in relation to the more meaningful question of whether any of the candidates’ public policy proposals can ever actually be implemented. Voters may develop the impression that there are meaningful policy differences, but this is a tribute to their prejudices or to the skill of politicians in creating a general impression that important differences exist when, in fact, they...
Whether or not Barack Obama goes on to win the nomination - and let's not forget in the afterglow that this is truly an open question - his field army will endure and, because of their immense skill, they will bend the political process to their will in years to come. And years from now, when they meet in the corridors of power or academia or at the inevitable reunions, they'll look at each other and smile, and they won't even have to say the words: We did something amazing back in Iowa, on January 3, 2008, didn...