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Sep 3, 2011

VIETNAM National Day (Declaration of independence from France and Japan, Sep 02, 1945), Sep 03, 2011


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coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/van_kien/declar.html - Cached his address in Hanoi on 2 September 1945. ... the Center and the South of Vietnam in order to wreck our national unity and prevent our people from being united ...

LATEST World News, Sep 03, 2011


Doha issues latest World Petroleum Congress programme
AME Info
We are also proud to say that the panellists and speakers at the 20th WPC are undeniably among the most prominent experts in the world," said Mr. Al-Sidiky. "When the brightest minds in theworld tell stories of trial, error and eventual success, ...
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Hottest stories, craziest moments from summer 2011
CNET (blog)
Everybody hates Netflix: Netflix decided to up the price on its streaming/DVD-by-mail combo by 60 percent, prompting global social-network ire of a distinctly first-world variety. While users threatened to cancel and citizens fighting autocratic ...
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BASE METALS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day
NASDAQ
SANTIAGO -(Dow Jones)- Chilean copper mine Escondida, controlled and operated by globalcompany BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP, BHP.AU), on Friday lifted force majeure on its copper concentrate shipments, after invoking the clause on July 27 due to a unionized ...
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Over 1000 Sit-in at White House (+ Top Activism Stories)
PlanetSave.com
It was the very top story on Google News this week — and one of the most widely viewed stories on the Internet. 3 Yesterday, Al Gore praised the bravery of folks sitting-in at the White House and then went on to strongly condemn the Keystone XL ...
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Campbell Brown hails coach Claude Grant
Jamaica Observer
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer Newly crowned IAAF World Championships 200m gold medallist Veronica Campbell Brown has lauded her coach Claude Grant for his contribution to her success at the biennial global track and field championships. ...
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After 9/11: 'You no longer have rights' – extract
The Guardian
Once I got my green card I became the Iraq project director with Global Exchange, aninternational human rights organisation based in San Francisco. My work was to reach out to Iraqi parliamentarians and put them in touch with American congressmen....
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The Guardian
MoneyWeek Roundup: It pays to ignore the news
MoneyWeek
With the global economy in a wobbly way (some really awful US jobless data was just the latestpiece of news suggesting that another recession is a distinct possibility), you should be on the defensive. For one, we reckon you should hang on to your ...
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Katy Perry pop video
Cream
Her summer 2010 single California Gurls reached the top spot on iTunes just 48 hours after the release. She has nearly 3 million Facebook fans and 2.4 million Twitter followers, giving her one of the largest fan bases in the global social media space. ...
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LePage to skip international trade mission
Bangor Daily News
“This mission is a great opportunity for Maine companies to expand their global presence and seek new markets,” LePage said in the statement. “I strongly encourage Maine companies to consider this opportunity.” LePage had announced the trade mission in ...
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I don't care, I'm buying a TouchPad
ITWorld Canada
IT World Canada is a contributor to the International Data Group (IDG) News Service, which publishes global technology stories from bureaus around the world to more than 300 publications in more than 60 countries. Your email address will not appear ...
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Mining boom pain becomes a threat to disciplined economic policy
The Australian
But two current stories highlight the perils of going easy on disciplined policy just because the jobless rate edges up slightly. As reported on page six today, fly-in, fly-out workers from as far away as Ireland are being tapped to build the three ...
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Entrepreneur Organisation Announces GSEA National Champion Winner Sapan ...
Your-Story.org (press release)
30 National winners from around the world will compete for the title of Top Student Entrepreneur in the World at the New York Stock Exchange on November 17th 2011. To get there, the finalists have surpassed more than 1800 nominees who participated in ...
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Tsui Hark on 'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame'
Crave Online
You can see directors make movies all over the world and still we respect those directors as very important and influential filmmakers. I think it's just a very romantic feeling of making a movie for theglobal audience. When we go back to make movies ...
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LG AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ASSIGNMENT PHOTOGRAPHERS COLLABORATE TO EXPAND ...
VAdvert Press Center (press release)
Mr. Winter has been working at National Geographic since 1991 and thinks his job is the best in the world. In 2011, his National Geographic story on Kaziranga in Assam India was recognized by the Pictures of the Year International's Global Vision Award...
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VAdvert Press Center (press release)
Xpress Money Expands its Network to Ireland and Denmark
Sacramento Bee
By Xpress Money The year 2011 just keeps getting better for the global instant money transfer brand, with a number of business partnerships with prestigious institutions under their belt, Xpress Money has now announced their entrance into 2 crucial ...
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Journalists need to point readers in the right direction
Belfast Telegraph
Top of their list were writing, finding news stories, interviewing and legal knowledge. At the bottom came social media, web skills and interaction with readers. Editors all agreed that digital skills were rapidly rising up the agenda, but still insist ...
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The uphill battle for American rugby
CNN International
Editor's note: With the Rugby World Cup beginning on September 9 in New Zealand, CNN is sharing the stories connected to this global sport. Here, we take a look at the grassroots culture of rugby in America and across college campuses. ...
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Winners of Europe's travel Oscars revealed at Cornelia Diamond Golf Resort
Breaking Travel News
Turkey in particular enjoyed a large slice of the evening's honours, reflecting its role as one of the few tourism success stories of the global downturn. Home-grown winners included Istanbul (“Europe's Leading City Break Destination”); ...
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The Dinosaur Revolution Will Be Televised
Smithsonian (blog)
The first episode sets the stage with an over-the-top scene meant to represent the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period about 250 million years ago. This was the most devastating globalextinction event in our planet's history, ...
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You Ain't No DJ
HipHopDX
Stories of thespians lashing out at “Raptors” snatching gigs littered the World Wide Web. Once Tinsel Town realized the selling power of an emcee's mean mug in a movie, the few black roles were no longer reserved exclusively for the few black actors. ...
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HipHopDX
All the News That's Fit to Invent
Canada Free Press
Essentially, the take home message that Yahoo News (and other MSM outfits who were running similar stories, especially on the Weather Channel) wants its viewers to get is that global warming—and by derivation those evil coal-burning power plants and ...
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Michael Beach, New York, The West Australian September 3, 2011, 7:29 am
The West Australian
Until even in hyperbole-loving America they realised it was over the top. So it was named again, this time in a clear statement that life goes on. The new handle is One World Trade Center, exactly the same name as the first tower the terrorists hit. ...
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My father, the politician
KanglaOnline
I do not have the answers to any of the questions above however I do have a few stories to tell of my own, stories that highlight the mindset of our fellow citizens. I had only arrived at one of India's topcolleges when one of the teachers told me in ...
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Travel bug fed early by scholarship trip to Italy
Edmonton Journal
The answer soon came in the form of a $24000 United World College scholarship to Duino, Italy. This was the ultimate trip for Shih, who, as a child, would wonder about the places she heard in her parents' stories about Africa and China. ...
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Haven Bound
Columbia Journalism Review (blog)
By Alysia Santo In 2008, Iceland was hit hard by the global financial crisis. Citizen outrage and political unrest followed, sparking a people-powered shift in government policies. In June of 2010, the parliament passed the Icelandic Modern Media ...
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Whose side am I on?
Hypergrid Business
Why we publish negative stories: Customers need to know what to watch out for. Knowing that some vendors are better than others in particular areas helps customers make buying decisions — and increases their comfort level with the technology overall. ...
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Put a lid on it
Ottawa Citizen
Like most in his profession, Jessen has horror stories. Last year, he was called in to repair a new, $15000 roof done by someone else. Because flashing had not been correctly installed, "water was pouring into the house through this gorgeous sculpted ...
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Parker Scheduled to Present at 17th Annual Gabelli & Company Aircraft Supplier ...
Sacramento Bee
The company employs approximately 58000 people in 47 countries around the world. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 55 consecutive fiscal years, among the topfive longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 ...
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Zimbabwe: Rejection of Treasury Facility - What Then?
AllAfrica.com
Obviously, those that have sacrificed to open those offshore credit lines to Zimbabwe especially under austere conditions of the global financial crisis seek a better return. Remember the US, Greece and Portugal among others are competing for similar ...
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Zac Brown Teams Up With Carhartt to Take Back Labor Day
MarketWatch (press release)
Beginning today, fans can visit http://www.facebook.com/Carhartt?sk=app_212059892180763 to watch videos featuring six members of the Southern Ground crew and vote on the individual they believe most deserves their moment in the spotlight. ...
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Drug company wins top business award
Voxy
It is great to see these businesses sharing their stories with the local community and revelling in their success," says Mayor Brown. "These awards continue to showcase the enormous amount of business skill and success that flows throughout north ...
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NBA's Basketball Without Borders Focuses On More Than Just The Sport
SB Nation
Many of these athletes participated in the World Summer Games which took place recently in Athens, Greece. Mutombo was there in his role as the NBA's GlobalAmbassador. Mutombo's title may be "Ambassador", but it should be "Prince. ...
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SB Nation
BUYINS.NET: HLIT, AVID, CBL, HFWA, COCO, TCI Expected to Trade Down After ...
TMC Net
It provides consumer video-editing products, including Pinnacle Studio and Dazzle, which provide consumers and entry-level videographers with the ability to create professional-looking videos; Pinnacle Studio product line that is available in three ...
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Raqs Media Collective Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the ...
E-Flux
We remember them, tell stories about them, make poems out of tea breaks and songs out of time stolen from laboring. It is the gossip and idle chatter of seconds and hours that makes for society. We know what we know about each other because we tell ...
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Haku Mo'olelo
Maui News
Apple has been repeatedly cited for problems at the manufacturing plants where its top-rated products are put together. When it was announcing its new iPad in 2010, the underlying stories in China were of the dozen worker suicides at the Foxconn plants ...
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IBM and KPMG to sponsor LondonlovesBusiness
Marketing Week
We will celebrate good business and success stories and rally against bureaucracy, mindless law-making and waste.” Pick up next week's issue of Marketing Week for more on the top global business to business brands according to BrandZ.
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Marketing Week
CBC News - Latest Canada, World, Entertainment and Business News
The latest news from across Canada and around the world. ... CBC Global Header Navigation. CBC.ca · News news drop ... U.S. embassy in Ottawa marks 9/11 anniversary Video .... NEWSQUIZ Test your knowledge of this week's top stories ...
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ABC News Blogs & Posts – ABC News
Get the latest news and blog posts from ABC News personalities, ... Back to Top ... Exclusive and breaking news stories from Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross and ... The latest international news and original reporting from ABC News ... ABC News asked globaloutplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas to ...
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USA News, Sep 03, 2011


Obama calls on Congress to fund transportation
USA Today
Using his weekly radio address to follow up on an issue he addressed earlier in the week at the White House, Obama accused lawmakers of "political posturing" that risks thousands of construction jobs and billions of dollars. In doing so, the president ...
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USA Today
Kurt Busch accepts Obama's invitation to White House
USA Today
By Tom Weir, USA TODAY Contrary to reports that he was one of five NASCAR drivers who had declined an invitation to the White House, Kurt Busch says he's in. "We'll be there next Wednesday," Busch told reporters at the Atlanta Motor Speedway today. ...
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USA Today
Obama decides against tougher ozone standards
USA Today (blog)
It topped the list of proposed regulations that could cost more than $1 billion demanded recently by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We're glad that the White Houseresponded to the speaker's letter and recognized the job-killing impact of this ...
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USA Today (blog)
Michele Bachmann tenure on Intel panel short
USA Today
Bachmann accused the White House of "taking power away from the military" by reducing their resources during a time of war and pointed to her committee post as proof she understands "the threats that America faces everyday. ...
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USA Today
Justice Department suit sends clear signal on proposed AT&T merger with T-Mobile
Chicago Tribune
Barack Obama spoke often en route to the White House about the need for greater scrutiny of mergers and their effect on competition. Since taking office, however, the greatest challenge to big business has been business itself. ...
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Uncle Omar Obama's Wild Ride
Right Side News
(And now today we know the White House was kept abreast of this criminal enterprise run by the Obama administration appointees. In classic scandal-control fashion, the Obama gang seems to have leaked this blockbuster information on the Friday before ...
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Memo from USA
The News International
Question: Will her hair win her the White House in 2012 polls? Probably not, but until Sarah Palin, another star with sterling hairdos announces her candidacy for president, Bachmann hogs the starlight. Meanwhile, the man with the orange tan calls the ...
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Obama: Off to Camp David -- no jobs comment
USA Today (blog)
The White House did send out a statement by economics adviser Katharine Abraham, who noted that the report did cite 17000 new jobs in the private sector. Clearly, faster growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the downturn. ...
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USA Today (blog)
Analysis: Obama's trade legacy in a crucible this fall
Reuters
Successful passage by Congress would burnish Obama's free trade credentials and boost talks on a regional free trade agreement that the White House hopes will establish "21st Century" trade rules in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region. ...
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Reuters
New Fast and Furious details indicate gov't cover-up, White House involvement
Daily Caller
New emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times appear to show senior Obama administration andWhite House officials were briefed on the gun-walking operation. The three White House officials implicated by the LA Times' reporting are Kevin M. O'Reilly, ...
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Justice In a Time of Terror: Bending The Branches
The Atlantic
The lower federal courts began to reject some White House arguments. And the American people began to again express their discomfort with the notion of an imperial and imperious presidency. This period lasted 1667 days. Let's call it the Age of Doubt. ...
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Roundtable: Is President Obama a good leader?
Galesburg Register-Mail
President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Wednesday to urge Congress to pass a federal highway bill. This week, Register-Mail Roundtable writers are responding to whether they consider Obama a good leader. ...
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One in Four Would Trade Rights for Security: Poll
Newser
Voltaire By Comments (NEWSER) - As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, theWhite House has issued guidelines for public commemorations and official statements to government officials both in the US and abroad. ...
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CNN/ORC: 8 in 10 think USA is in a recession
Hot Air
It's going to take a serious breakthrough in a positive direction to improve consumer confidence and turn this around. If you can think of anything that the White House has on the back burner to make that happen, be sure to let me know. ...
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Palin to give big Iowa speech as polls show most Republicans do not want her ...
CBS News
A Fox News poll shows that 71 percent of Republicans think that Palin should stay out of the race for the White House. And for every self-described Tea Party voter who wants her to run, two think she should stay on the sidelines. ...
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Post-9/11 US policy, cost and new threat
China Daily
... planes were flown into and destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane was aimed at the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after being averted by passengers from its target, believed to be the White House. ...
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From The Comedy Store
Patriot Post
The White House was just relieved it's not another case of Jobs moving to China or Mexico. USAToday cited a census report showing that fifteen Southern states lead the US in divorce rates. It's a nervous region by nature. Tornadoes, banks and former ...
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Home Construction Industry Suffers in Dismal US Housing Market
Voice of America
Related Articles US Banks Face Lawsuits Over Risky Mortgages New York Times says Federal Housing Finance Agency taking action against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, others White House: US Unemployment To Stay High Through 2012 US ...
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Beware the super PAC
Washington Post
Two former campaign and White House aides for President Obama have launched Priorities USAAction to help the reelection effort. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman each have super PAC backing. ...
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Jobs? What Jobs, President Obama?
Forbes
Today officially brought word from the big boys at the White House themselves that the job situation, in regards to unemployment, will remain fairly bleak, even up until next year's anticipated election. That unemployment rate, as it stands currently, ...
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GDLA Preview: L.A. County Fair
MyFox Los Angeles
It consists of Live Shark Encounter, where a diver swims in a 5000-gallon tank of white sharks; the Great White Encounter Exhibit, which includes a life-size replica of a great white shark, shark teeth, fossils, photos, videos and odd objects that have ...
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Stock markets fall as US job creation hits the wall
CTV.ca
I wonder what is on the White House Menu for Dinner? More than Hope and Change I bet and all served on a splendid dinner plate "Made in China". Kind of like their economy! Looks like Obama can not make socialism work. But what happened to all the ...
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CTV.ca
Students Learn Science and Engineering Principles Best by 'Doing!'
ScienceBlogs (blog)
The 2010 Festival attracted over 500000 people of all ages and had strong support from the White House and Congress. To hook kids on the excitement of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) you must not only engage them via meaningful ...
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I Welcome Their Hatred
Tapped (blog)
Our choice incensed the White House press pool and the rest of the mainstream media and probably increased the frenzy of their reaction. But, again, the last thing on my mind was whether I was irritating the New York Times. Yes, that must have been why ...
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Tapped (blog)
THE BIG ECONOMIC ENGINE DERAILED
NewsWithViews.com
These new breeds of politicians, lacking in intellectual capacity, morals and honor, established a systematic deconstruction of the nation's Constitution, with help by several succeeding White House Administrations who selected their favorite lawyers ...
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Mr. Ice Guy's Top-25 Coolest Hockey Goalie Masks of All-Time
TheFantasyFix.com
On the other side, we have another eagle, doing the same thing to the White House. Not so prevalent, down by the ears, are the DC memorial of Honest Abe on the right, and the world famous Iwo Jima flag-raising by US Marines on the left. ...
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Romney to sound Rubio-esque note in speech to Hispanic GOP leaders
The Hill (blog)
BY PAT on 09/02/2011 at 10:24 Romney will tell you anything you want to hear to get to the White House so he can shaft you. Securing the borders is the GOP priority. Immigration is an area of concern, but one with potential benefit. ...
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On the Tax Reform Front
Intellectual Conservative
The Senate and the White House both favor increased taxation as part of a tax, spend and regulate approach to economic policy that also favors a "more is better" approach to all three. Thus, we will have to see a major change in the Senate membership ...
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Duchess of Cambridge, Michelle Obama wield style power for good
The Tennessean
In June, Obama wore a nautical-striped dress from Talbots to the White House Congressional Picnic, and the $189 frock sold out. Obama “has had an incredibly huge impact,” says Jennifer Black, CEO of Jennifer Black & Associates, a retail research firm. ...
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Stetson Kennedy, unmasker of the Klan
The Guardian
In 1946, Kennedy wore his white robe and hood to crash a meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He wanted them to investigate the Klan. They had him thrown out of the capitol. Mississippi Congressman John Rankin, chair of Huac, said,...
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The Guardian
Prescription drugs kill cocaine and make Pharma Bigger
OpEdNews
The two hospitals, one in a wealthy area, and the other in an economically depressed zone have nothing in common but for the challenge of dealing with what the White House in April called "an epidemic" of prescription drug abuse. ...
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TREASURIES-Bonds jump as jobs data fans Fed stimulus bets
Reuters
N] The latest US Labor Department payrolls report also ratcheted up pressure on the White Houseto come up with a bold scheme to create jobs. President Barack Obama is scheduled to unveil his jobs plan to Congress next Thursday. ...
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Kitcommentary from Kitco Metals Inc. - "Jobba The Hut"
InvestorIdeas.com (press release)
As things stand now, the White House projects a US unemployment rate at 8.2% for the coming year – the highest such number for an election year since FDR ran for, and was successfully re-elected back in 1936. Of course, much of the conviction being ...
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Twitter feels the heat as rugby stars feel the cold
Irish Independent
Finally guilt free audiobooking." Tommy Bowe, meanwhile, was pining away for his girlfriend. Female followers of the heart-throb winger will have watched his Twitter feed with despair as he told his girlfriend, Miss Wales, Lucy Whitehouse, ...
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Hoyer gives St. Mary's athletes the Olympic treatment
So Md News
Faced with a struggling economy and mounting federal debt, members of Congress have spent recent months quarreling with each other and the White House over where to best find savings. Well aware that social programs are often among the first to feel ...
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The Wannabe Booker: Re-Booking John Cena's Career as the WWE Posterboy
Bleacher Report
When Cena does appear on every Raw, it's either videos from home or he's taken to ring by security. Edge even does one video where Cena's at Raw and Edge drives to and talks to Cena's parents' house, his girlfriend's house and driving through his ...
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White House: Kadhafi's days numbered - Yahoo! News
News. The White House predicted Sunday that Moamer Kadhafi's days as ... "The United Statescontinues to communicate closely with our allies, partners, and ...
news.yahoo.com/white-house-kadhafis-days-numbered-15231...
White House: U.S. economy in the need to boost jobs - Videos ...
Videos - The White House said on Friday said that the unemployment rate in the United States is still "unacceptably high" and that the government report that ...
www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/...white.../videos

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