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...Democrats still agree on. But cute - and wildly talented - kids are one of them, and the seventh-graders at Atlanta's Ron Clark Academy certainly qualify. Their paean to the political process, "You Can Vote However You Like," inspired by rapper T.I.'s hit "Whatever You Like," has swept across the Internet over the past few days, amassing nearly 300,000 hits on YouTube and booking them upcoming appearances on ABC's Good Morning America and BET's 106 & Park. After learning of their performance, T.I. himself stopped by the school...
Rumors that GM is preparing to file for bankruptcy swept through the company's plants this week. "I'm hearing they're not going to be able to meet payroll by spring," one employee at a GM assembly plant near Detroit said. GM, however, said speculation it was nearing bankruptcy is not true. "Bankruptcy would not be in the interests of our employees, stockholders, suppliers or customers, and we believe speculation about a possible filing is exaggerated and unconstructive," GM said in a statement...
There are more Chinese and Indians than anyone else on earth, but they know astonishingly little of each other. Though diasporas from both nations have swept the world, it wasn't until the past 20 years that Indians and Chinese began visiting each other in significant numbers. Among those crossing the Himalayas was New Delhi native Pallavi Aiyar, who became the Beijing correspondent of the Hindu...
...This administration, I think, was traumatized by 9/11...they were swept away by the notion that we could solve the problem in this difficult region by moving in and taking out Saddam [Hussein] and creating a democracy that could spread to the rest of the region,” he said...
...Democrats are keenly aware of this math and have been focusing money and time in the Philadelphia area, including Obama's appearance on Tuesday, likely to be his last in the state. Rendell, who himself swept to victory in his first term with a blowout win in the Philadelphia suburbs, said he's confident that Obama will hold those southeastern counties strongly. Turnout in the Philadelphia area might be large enough to make sure Obama is "unbeatable in the state even if the bottom fell out [in the west]," he told TIME. "And I don't think the bottom will...