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...home? There were drums and dancers, it was just like in the movies. At the airport, there was a lot of goodwill, and I think you're able to see it on YouTube. [See clip below]. It's all so good, though, because India has been through this huge thing with the Bombay [bombings], and the floods and so many other things. I'm glad there's something to cheer about, and I hope the controversies don't bring that celebration down...
...Well, talk a bit about the film's controversial reception in India? I feel that the intention of the movie was right, but people were a bit touchy about the dog thing. It's kind of an insult if you have the word "dog" in the title. That's what they are objecting to, but I don't think it was intentional from the creators. What I like is that here are probably the richest people in the world, living in Bombay, and the poorest of the slums, all coexisting. This movie kind of shows both...
...distraction” from Obama’s health-care initiative, but the sentiment was too little too late: Both developments unfolded in the midst of controversy surrounding recently confirmed treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, who was found to have delayed payment on $34,000 worth of income taxes. All things considered, the tax mishaps may have been honest mistakes, and none of the cases seem particularly egregious. However, at such high levels of government, even the smallest skeletons in the closet make national headlines. In the midst of two wars, a struggling economy, and a fledgling administration, the last thing...
...Daschle, Barack Obama’s now-withdrawn nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services and the new White House Office of Health Reform, should have paid his taxes. It is the right thing to do, of course, and the fact that a man of his intelligence could not file a tax return properly—or that a man of his wealth could not afford a good accountant—is puzzling...
...grips the road ... I could see how people might get used to this." The punch line of the story was that Obama's staff asked him to give up the practice, which was legal, because he was the Democrats' Senate point man on ethics reform. "It was the right thing to do, but I won't lie," he admitted. "The first time I was scheduled for a four-city swing ... flying commercial, I felt some pangs of regret." The traffic was awful. His plane to Memphis was late. But then he found himself in an intense conversation about stem-cell...