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...Just as when biologists get upset when poachers kill the last specimen of a given species, so too medievalists get upset when one of the last positions in paleography gets eliminated,” Hamburger said...
...American people and their core values is dead-on. A post-election survey by Democratic pollster Peter Hart found that Senator Brown was elected primarily because Massachusetts working-class independents didn’t think the Obama administration was doing enough to address their economic concerns. Folks are upset at a lack of both efficacy and backbone. Democrats have to discard the image of a wonkish organization inextricably attached to Wall Street and an inept bureaucracy. Although this may not change the mind of fervent tea partiers in the short run, it’ll help weaken the movement?...
...food giant Kraft has reached an agreement to buy 186-year-old British confectioner Cadbury for $19.5 billion, ending months of resistance and rejected offers. But the takeover has left a bad taste for British citizens upset at the sale of a national icon--and for Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett, who criticized the purchase. If finalized, the deal will make Kraft the largest player in the global candy market, displacing Mars...
...Brunnick upset Princeton’s Jon Hartmann to place in his fourth event of the day, claiming the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:39.29. But even with Brunnick’s win, the Tigers captured the next six places in the event...
...Their message, that the Obama Administration has been pushing job-killing legislation on everything from health care to global warming, seems to have resonated with independent voters who helped win Republicans the Virginia and New Jersey governors' mansions and, in a surprise upset, Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat in Massachusetts. "The President isn't having trouble because Republicans oppose his job-killing agenda - he's having trouble because the American people oppose his job-killing agenda," says Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman...