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...seats. Now, according to polls, he could gather up to 20 seats, bumping Labor, one of Israel's classic founding parties, into fourth place. Netanyahu's Likud Party is expected to win 25 to 27 seats, and Livni's centrist Kadima 23 to 25 seats. Lieberman is the subject of a long-running police probe for corruption (he rejects any implication of wrongdoing), but that doesn't faze his fans. Nor does his selection of motley running mates: he has a former ambassador to Washington and a Likud renegade, but also a former model, a singer, a TV anchor...
...that Michelle Obama had been approached by "over a dozen" publishers to write a book. Calls were going through Washington superlawyer Bob Barnett, who represented the President for Audacity. Interest has only intensified since then, but the First Lady's office is in lockdown when it comes to that subject. "There are no book deals in the works" is all that her spokesperson would tell TIME. (See behind-the-scenes pictures of the Obamas on Inauguration...
...endowment fell 22 percent—or roughly $8 billion—in the four months prior to Nov. 1, and is projected to fall 30 percent by the end of the fiscal year on June 30.While the Task Force’s report will need to be subject to some financial concessions, Faust said, Harvard is making “a small beginning” to ensure that the University capitalizes on the report’s momentum.Faust did not mention increasing investments in physical spaces for arts creation and collaboration—one of the Task Force?...
...United States would not provide reproductive health aid to non-governmental organizations that performed or promoted abortion as a means of family planning. He presented his decision as a conciliatory gesture, arguing that “for too long, international family planning assistance has been…the subject of a back-and-forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.” In this claim Obama is half-correct. He has indeed avoided a nuanced debate on this controversial policy, but his firm, agonistic posture...
...Cabinet appointments have been subject to a disappointing vetting process. His forays into foreign affairs produced a very unfortunate comment that America has been "dictating" to other nations...