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DigitalReel Productions Announces Digital Release
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Former Secretary of Defense and Author/Playwright to Host Conference on Race and Reconciliation in America
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William S. Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen are hosting leaders from politics, business, entertainment, the military, media, religion, law and academe to begin a serious, open, civil dialogue on racial, ethnic and religious prejudice. The conference will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on July 24-25, 2008. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)
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Web 2.0 Meets Dialing for Dollars
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Seattle nonprofit first to utilize live, webcasting for fundraising. (PRWeb Jul 9, 2008)
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Mohammed bin Rashid issues decree to set up health council
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Fayyad: IDF raids in West Bank undermine Palestinian security efforts
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Umbrellas, soft drinks classed as 'security risk' at Olympic venues
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Bush looks forward to visiting Beijing for Olympics opening
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U.S. President George W. Bush said Wednesday he is looking forward to traveling to Beijing in August to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. He made the remark after emerging with Chinese President Hu Jintao from their meeting here, saying to Hu that he is ''looking forward to your hospitality.
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Full text of G-8 summit chair's summary -3-
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IV. Political Issues DPRK: We remain committed to achieving the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. We urge DPRK, in accordance with the Joint Statement of September 19, 2005 and UNSCRs 1695 and 1718, to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs as well as ballistic missile programs and return to full compliance with its NPT obligations.
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Full text of G-8 summit chair's summary
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Abbott to write book about politics
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TV's June Sarpong mixes fashion and politics on new website
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The G-8 agree on a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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The Washington Post leads with the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations agreeing on a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It marked the first time that President Bush has backed a plan that calls for a specific target to combat global warming. The declaration made it clear that developing nations must also commit to "meaningful" cuts, which has long been a goal of the Bush administration. Developing countries and environmentalists were quick to criticize the Group of Eight declaration as essentially meaningless because its language was too vague. The Wall Street Journal leads its world-wide newsbox with, and the WP fronts, claims by a former Environmental Protection Agency official that Vice President Cheney's office sought deletions to a federal official's prepared testimony about health threats posed by global warming.
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Kuwaiti MPs call for transparency in state revenues
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Michelle Obama to Host Discussion with Working Women in Missouri Thursday
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This roundtable is part of a series of roundtable discussions with women that Michelle has hosted across the country throughout the primary season, and most recently, last month in Manchester, New Hampshire, and on Wednesday of this week in Pontiac, Michigan. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)
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Progressive Gains as Record Gasoline Curbs Driving, and Accidents, in U.S.
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Slovakia to extend euro area to central Europe
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Golisano Aims Millions at N.Y. Legislative Races
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ALBANY Tom Golisano, the unpredictable Rochester businessman with deep pockets and never-ending political ambition, brought fresh drama to a chaotic election year on Tuesday with his announcement that he would pour at least $5 million into the states legislative races. That is about 10 times what the average Senate candidate spends in an election, and slightly more than all the money held in the Republican Partys statewide campaign accounts. His aim, Mr. Golisano said at a news conference, was to throw a scare into and maybe even replace Albanys political elite. He certainly drew their attention. Those...
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July 11th Marks the Commemoration of World Population Day under the Theme 'Family Planning, it's a Right, Let's Make it Real
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Japan to host energy-saving forum of oil producing, consuming nations
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Japan will host a meeting of oil producing and consuming countries in the fall to discuss measures to deal with surging oil prices, including how to promote sharing energy-saving technologies, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday. The meeting will be the first such forum to be launched to that end, Fukuda told a press conference after wrapping up the three-day Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido, northern Japan. ==Kyodo
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G-8 to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe if UNSC reaches accord: Fukuda
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The Group of Eight major nations will impose sanctions on Zimbabwe if the U.N. Security Council reaches an agreement to do so, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Wednesday. Fukuda made the comment during a press conference following the conclusion of the three-day G-8 summit in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
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Malaysia's Anwar challenges sodomy accuser to produce witnesses
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Iran test-launches long-range Shahab 3 missile
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U.S. defends placing missile defense shields in E. Europe
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The United States said Wednesday that its plan to erect missile defense shields in Eastern Europe is not aimed at Russia and that it will continue to seek Moscow's understanding of the move. ''We seek strategic cooperation on preventing missiles from rogue nations like Iran from threatening our friends and allies,'' said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House's National Security Council. ''We will continue to have a dialogue with the Russians,'' he said.
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Umbrellas, soft drinks deemed 'security risks' at Beijing Olympics
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State-run media on Wednesday reminded spectators not to bring banned items to Olympic sports venues -- including long umbrellas, cigarette lighters and soft drinks -- as part of the massive security operation and publicity campaign in the lead up to the Beijing Games. The official Xinhua News Agency said security staff are under orders to confiscate any banned items and will not return them to spectators.
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'BECK '08 - LIVE' Offers Evening of Political Comedy and Insight During Special Nationwide In-Theatre Event
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National CineMedia's Fathom and Mercury Radio Arts Present Glenn Beck's Comedy Tour in Select Theatres on July 17th (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)
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Poland avoids missile defense topic with Obama
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Obama proposes bankruptcy changes
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Obama ad attacks McCain on energy solutions
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Michigan stem cell research proposal advances
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Fewer A Schools In Polk, But None Failing
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Jack Kevorkian's congressional bid moves forward
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PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian has collected enough signatures to be on the November ballot as a congressional candidate in Michigan. Joe Rozell, director of elections for Oakland County, says Kevorkian had about 3,200 valid signatures. Kevorkian needed to collect 3,000.
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In poll of pet owners, McCain tops Obama
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Malia Obama looks forward to decorating White House room
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ElectionMall CEO, Ravi Singh Says Democracy Cannot Be OutSourced
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Technology can change the world with Presidential Election 2008. Campaign technology has become a serious vertical market in democracies around the world. ElectionMall expands to global markets with presidential tools as seen in the McCain and Obama campaigns. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2008)
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Lobbyists Hack Your Elections (Part II): E-Mail Suggests Convicted Felon Bob Ney Connived with Ohio Election Officials, OEJC Calls for Investigation
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The Ohio Election Justice Campaign announced today that e-mail between Ohio lobbyist and Ohio election officials suggests that convicted felon Bob Ney connived with Ohio election officials to promote the agenda of lobbyists. E-mail disclosed pursuant to public records request by the Ohio Election Justice Campaign, which calls for an investigation into influence peddling in Ohio's elections. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2008)
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Lords call for data breach law
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High Oil, Food Prices Concern G-8 Leaders
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Obama Proposes Changing Bankruptcy Laws
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Ex-Official: Cheney Meddled On Climate
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Kuwaiti minister meets municipal officials
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ABC Producer: Tim Russert Saved My Life
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After showering, I lay down in bed and started thinking. Though I am a 50-year-old guy with a stressful job and a little too much around the middle, I had a clean bill of health. I had good cholesterol numbers and a great doctor, and recently I had passed a cardiac stress test.
That's when Tim Russert popped into my head. In the last couple of weeks, like almost every middle-age man, I had taken a very personal interest in every detail of his story. Yes, he was overweight. But hadn't he just passed a stress test?
That's when the light went on. I bolted out of bed, went to the computer and Googled "How do you know you are having a heart attack?" The first Web site that popped up was a list of warning signs from the American Heart Association. As I read on, I started to sweat.
"Nausea." Check.
"Shortness of breath." Check.
"Chest discomfort." Perhaps, though it really didn't feel like much.
Ignoring the Web site's advice to call 911 (I was too vain to have an ambulance pull up to my house), I drove to the hospital.
When I stepped up to admissions desk the nurse asked why I was there. "Mild chest pains," I said. "How old?" she asked. "Fifty," I replied.
She nonchalantly turned to the orderly and said, "Hey, Lenny, we got another one." I guess many men, stunned by Mr. Russert's sudden death, were doing just the same thing I was.
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Housing agency expands mortgage aid program
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UPDATE 2-OFHEO: Accounting rule should not drive GSE capital
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Olmert condemns Labor for being unreliable, weak
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What's Bad For Alaska Republicans Is Good For DC Lawyers
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In an article that got buried underneath a holiday news cycle late last week, the AP revealed that Alaska Rep. Don Young has been using campaign donations to pay personal legal fees stemming from an FBI investigation into bribery and corruption. In the last six month period of disclosure, files show, the 18-term Republican has spent more than $35,000 on legal counsel. And while dipping into campaign coffers for such a purpose is kosher when the underlying issue is related to official business, the fact that a candidate is spending nearly as much on lawyers as on polling is always a troubling sign for campaign observers, as well as potential future donors.
But is Alaska's similarly embattled senior senator doing the same as he prepares a reelection campaign? It's a tough question to answer, absent any volunteering of information, since the Senate has excluded itself from the same disclosure rules as the House when it comes to how campaign funds are being spent. However, Republican Ted Stevens -- better known to locals as "Uncle Ted" -- has nevertheless allowed some stray evidence of his legal spending to enter the public record in the period after the FBI and IRS raided his Girdwood, Alaska, home last summer.
In a personal financial disclosure document for 2007, submitted in May of this year, Stevens claimed an outstanding debt of between $15,000 and $50,000 to the high-powered Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connelly, LLP. (Click here to download the document (pdf), and see Page 12 under "Liabilities.")
On its website, the firm touts its past service to such high-flying defendants as President Bill Clinton and Oliver North (whose ultimate price tag for legal defense during the Iran-Contra scandal has been pegged at $20 million). Given the firm's history for racking up princely sums, it would seem unlikely that the total figure for legal services rendered to Stevens could fit inside the range of numbers indicated in his personal disclosure form. (For his part, Young has spent over $1 million in total on legal fees.)
And while neither Stevens nor Young has thus far been charged with any wrongdoing, it is clear, at minimum, that the hint of scandal has already rocked the political status quo in a state where Republicans normally win in a walk. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says it recently conducted a poll that showed Barack Obama ahead of John McCain 45-43. Compared to 2004, when John Kerry lost the state by 25 points to President Bush, Democrats think they have a shot this time. (Obama has pledged to campaign in Alaska before November, and purchased television ads there as part of his first national buy.) While the DSCC is not releasing any details of its internal poll, a source there said it showed Mark Begich, the Democratic mayor of Anchorage, with a slight lead over Stevens, as well. If true, such competitiveness may bode well for overall Democratic hopes for a filibuster-proof Senate majority.
Not all observers are so optimistic about Democrats' chances in Alaska. Pollster Ivan Moore, who has consulted for candidates from both parties in the state, believes that the damage done to Stevens by the corruption probe has reached its bottom, so long as no more developments occur between now and November.
"The trials of the various state legislators are pretty much done," he said. "And there hasn't been any action in the last six months in terms of additional indictments. The gossip and the rumor seems to suggest there aren't going to be any indictments of Ben Stevens [the Senator's son and state legislator] or Ted Stevens and Don Young themselves, since the Department of Justice doesn't want any presidential pardons spoiling the hard work that they've done."
Instead, Moore says the lasting effect of the scandal-plagued Republican caucus will be that statewide races will be competitive for the first time in a long time -- noting that Begich has seized the rare moment of opportunity. "He's a once in a lifetime, credible, hardworking fundraising machine," Moore told the Huffington Post. And though Stevens has raised more than ten times the amount of money as his Democratic rival, he's also spent two thirds of that amount, leaving the incumbent with just over $1 million in the bank.
Ultimately, Moore believes, the race will come down to whether or not Alaskans still view Stevens -- with his legendary pork-barrel prowess -- as a necessity for the state's economy during troubled times.
"Realistically speaking, if Ted wins, it would probably be his last term," Moore says, because of his age. To that end, the strategist advised Begich to argue that Alaska should make the change it needs to build Senate seniority back up starting now, instead of later -- and that it should diversify its Senate caucus to include both parties. "It used to be you couldn't possibly be running a statewide race and be using the D-word," Moore noted. "But I think he probably will. Mark's kind of more politically fearless."
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Jul 7th 2008 – Poland economy: Privatisation delay
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9/11 Chronicles Part 1: Truth Rising
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Chesterfield lawyer defends the alleged 9/11 planner - Police Beat - inRich.com
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Similarities between 1929 and 2008 terrifying - Salt Lake Tribune
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Obama: McCain Economy Is Bush Economy
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CHICAGO — Democrat Barack Obama blamed Washington for the country's economic woes Monday and sought to link Republican rival John McCain to President Bush's policies as the presidential candidates maneuvered for the upper hand on a top concern of voters.
"It hasn't worked, it won't work, and it's time to try something new," Obama said of the country's current economic policies under a GOP president, in remarks the Democrat was to deliver later in Charlotte, N.C.
The economy, and especially its impact on the middle class, has emerged as the central focus of the presidential campaign, given skyrocketing gas prices, high job losses and rising food costs. Both candidates were launching weeklong efforts to highlight their differences on the issues.
Both Obama and McCain sought to send a message to those feeling the biggest economic pinch: I feel your pain.
In North Carolina, Obama lamented job losses and foreclosures, saying: "For millions of families, these everyday worries and long-term anxieties have grown considerably worse over the last year."
He also took a swing at McCain and Bush, lumping the two Republicans together.
"As our world and our economy have changed, only Washington has stood still. The progress we made during the 1990s was quickly reversed by an administration with a single philosophy that is as old as it is misguided _ reward not work, not success, but pure wealth," Obama said, arguing that Bush policies were skewed toward big corporations and multimillionaires.
He said that strategy has failed badly and that McCain offers "exactly what George Bush has done for the last eight years."
Obama chided McCain for saying at one point that the country has made "great progress economically" under Bush. "He believes we're on the right track," Obama said of McCain.
"I won't stand here and pretend that we can or should undo the economic transformations that have taken place over the last few decades," Obama said. "There are jobs that aren't coming back and this world will always be more competitive. But I do believe that if all of us are willing to share the burdens and benefits of this new economy, then all of us will prosper _ not just because government makes it so, but because we're willing to take responsibility as individuals to work harder and think more and innovate further."
He called anew for the passage of "a second stimulus package that provides energy rebate checks for working families, a fund to help families avoid foreclosure, and increased assistance for states that have been hard-hit by the economic downturn." He also renewed his call for McCain to support such a package.
"There are many policies we'll disagree on, but immediate relief for families who are struggling shouldn't be one of them," Obama said.
On taxes, he said: "It's time to reform our tax code so that it rewards work and not just wealth." Again referring to McCain, he added: "The difference is _ he trusts that prosperity will trickle down from corporations and the wealthiest few to everyone else. I believe that it's the hard work of middle-class Americans that fuels this nation's prosperity."
As Obama was traveling to North Carolina, his campaign and the Democratic National Committee announced a departure from previous conventions.
They said Obama will accept his party's presidential nomination before up to 76,000 people at the Denver Broncos' football stadium on the last night of the Democratic Party convention instead of the smaller Pepsi Center, which can accommodate 21,000.
The convention begins Aug. 25 and Obama is to speak Aug. 28.
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Madonna Denies Relationship With Alex Rodriguez, Says She Won't Divorce Guy Ritchie
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Madonna last night denied she plans to divorce Guy Ritchie - after the grim-faced pair attended a New York Kabbalah service together.
The 49-year-old singer has been linked to American baseball star Alex Rodriguez, 32, who has split from wife Cynthia, 34. It had been claimed Madge introduced the sportsman - nicknamed A-Rod - to the Jewish mystical religion.
But last night she released a statement insisting: "My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce. I know Alex Rodriguez through Guy Oseary, who manages both of us. I am not romantically involved in any way with him.
"I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage or what spiritual path he may study."
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Obama setting SC campaign plans
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New War Brewing: US, Israel Take Dangerous Steps
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The embattled Bush administration's bunker mentality is leading to war that will gravely damage long-term U.S. Mideast interests. A single Iranian missile hit on Israel's reactor would do more damage to the Jewish state than all its previous wars. Besides, Israel cannot destroy Iran's nuclear infrastructure. A U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran will guarantee Tehran decides to build nuclear weapons. Israel and Iran have turned their regional rivalry into a confrontation that threatens all.
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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth gear up for 2008 White House race (Misleading headline/barf alert)
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The swift boats are coming. They'll go by different names this year, but the largely unregulated interest groups like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - which in 2004 torpedoed Democrat John Kerry with allegations he'd inflated his war record - are gearing up for the 2008 White House race like never before. So far this year, so-called 527 groups - named for a section of the IRS tax code - have raised a staggering $210 million, up from $182 million at this point in 2004. But here's the ideological bottom line - roughly two-thirds of that $210 million has been...
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Cal State S.B. students immerse themselves in Arabic
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Amber Tracy spent the past academic year studying Arabic. But with a full-time job and other classes, she wasn't progressing as quickly as she had wanted. On June 23, she began an intensive Arabic program at Cal State San Bernardino, learning Arabic all day and practicing it in residence halls well into the night. "I think I've learned more in the last week than I did all last semester," Tracy said after finishing a lunch of Arab-style chicken, rice and salad with her tutors and other students. "Being able to focus on Arabic and not think about anything else is...
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Clinton's supporters not yet reconciled to vote for Obama
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WASHINGTON: In an ominous sign for Democratic nominee Barack Obama's campaign, a new survey has found that Hillary Clinton's supporters may not cast their ballot for the African American candidate in the November presidential election. A week after Clinton made a public show of unity with Obama after being trounced in a racially devisive contest for the party ticket, the survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead. A growing number of Clinton supporters say they may stay home in November instead of casting their ballot for Obama, who hopes to be...
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Repeat of "Red Eye" with Ann Coulter on now.
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Huffpollstrology: Candidates' Horoscopes, Polls And More For July 7
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Polls have come to dominate the media's horse race coverage of political campaigns. Pundits and reporters constantly use them to tell us who's hot and who's not -- but skip over the fact that plummeting response rates and variables like undecided voters and margins of error and often render these polls useless as anything other than lightweight diversions on par with horoscopes and political betting lines. Our HuffPollstrology chart helps keep you up to date on the latest poll results, along with the latest horoscope predictions, and the latest online political betting lines - and will hopefully help the polling junkies in the media keep polls in the proper perspective.
Mccain vs obama in the General election 
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August 29, 1936Though fully aware that certain family matters cannot be ignored, you might still be disquieted about how to handle changing dynamics. Someone's obsession - or apparent possessiveness could cause some anxiety. An old friend's reappearance on the scene may be timely - if expensive: they might suggest you treat yourselves.
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August 4, 1961Someone from your past could make contact. The might not do this directly either. They may have enlisted the assistance of a relative. Perhaps they're hoping they can build a bridge between you. It is probable that you'll give careful thought to how an old relationship can be repaired or moved into a new phase. Quite separately, you might need to decide whether or not an item is worth the cost of its projected repair.
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New York, NY
75 degrees (F), 60% chance of rain. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph.south 
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97 degrees (F), 10% chance of rain. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.midwest Chicago, IL
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82 degrees (F), 0% chance of rain. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.Sources:
General Election Poll: Gallup Tracking Poll
The general-election results are based on combined data from July 2-3 and July 5, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,620 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
Horoscopes: horoscopes.co.uk
Weather: Weather.com
Betting Lines: Intrade Prediction Markets
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Conservative Activists Planning To Do Battle With McCain
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Conservative activists are preparing to do battle with allies of Sen. John McCain in advance of September's Republican National Convention, hoping to prevent his views on global warming, immigration, stem cell research and campaign finance from becoming enshrined in the party's official declaration of principles.
McCain has not yet signaled the changes he plans to make in the GOP platform, but many conservatives say they fear wholesale revisions could emerge as candidate McCain seeks to put his stamp on a document that currently reflects the policies and principles of President Bush.
"There is just no way that you can avoid anticipating what is going to come. Everyone is aware that McCain is different on these issues," said Jessica Echard, executive director of the conservative Eagle Forum. "We're all kind of waiting with anticipation because we just don't know how he's going to thread this needle."
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McCain To Unveil Vow To Balance Budget In First Term
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to promise on Monday that he will balance the federal budget by the end of his first term by curbing wasteful spending and overhauling entitlement programs, including Social Security, his advisers told Politico.
The vow to take on Social Security puts McCain in a political danger zone that thwarted President Bush on the top domestic priority of his second term.
McCain is making the pledge at the beginning of a week when both presidential candidates plan to devote their events to the economy, the top issue in poll after polls after voters struggle to keep their jobs and fill their gas tanks.
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LAX Hilton Sues City
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Podcast: Preview the Business Journal
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Easy access to the Los Angeles Business Journal podcast is available from a link at the upper right corner of the home page. Click the standing link there, or here, to hear Editor Charles Crumpley provide highlights from the June 30 edition.
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Why some conservatives are backing Obama. Meet the Obamacons.
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The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons. These are conservatives who have publicly endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, dissidents from the brain trust of think tanks, ex-officials and policy magazines that have fueled the Republican Party since the 1960s. Scratch the surface of this elite, and one finds a profound dismay that is far more damaging to the GOP than the usual 10 percent of registered Republicans expected to switch...
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Kerry says McCain lacks judgment
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RFK Jr's Memo to the Next President: It's Time to Kick Our Dependency on Fossil Fuels
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Polk Homicides This Year May Top the Record
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Bush to G-8: "Now Listen Here, No One is Going to Make This Cowboy Miss the Olympics. Yippee Ki Yay!" 7/7
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Negotiations a Distraction for Drivers
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Philippines tries to edge out India for U.S. outsourcing jobs. Will the last person with a job in the U.S. please turn out the lights? 7/7
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Obama's First Book Doesn't Change Anyone's Mind
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2 Ex-Generals Arrested in Alleged Turkey Coup Plot, Related to Tension Between the Military and Secularists and the Ruling Islamic Party (Of a Relatively Mild Sort) 7/7
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Student News
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22-Year-Old Man Dies at Scene in One-Car Crash
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Bush: `Affront' to Chinese to skip Olympics start
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Bush: US Believes In Strong Dollar Policy
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