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...Even the young who can't vote care! As my 6-year-old son Michael and I were watching the most recent debate, he said, "Mom, I like the brown man's name. And he has some ideas that I can understand, too. He would be a good President. I would vote for him." The "brown man," Obama, will get my vote - on behalf of my son. Mary Walter, Chadds Ford Township...
...unfortunate, to say the least, that one of the first actions of Britain's present Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1997, was to remove the task of bank supervision from the Bank of England and entrust it to the agency responsible for the regulation of U.K. financial markets - perhaps under the erroneous belief that financial regulation and bank supervision were much the same thing. In fact, they are fundamentally different. In any event, although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share...
...days of abortive attempts to find a genuine private-sector rescue, I authorized the Bank of England to take over JMB, close the business, and sort out the mess, which it duly did. Northern Rock is a larger and more complex case, but the principles are the same. Instead, Brown and his Chancellor, Alistair Darling, spent five months unsuccessfully trying to find a private-sector solution, which was never in any genuine sense going to be possible, least of all amid the turmoil of today's financial markets. While the situation deteriorated, the taxpayers' exposure grew, and the bank...
Whom do you consider the most influential musician from the pre-hip-hop era? -Harold Grant, San AntonioJames Brown. He opened it up and let you know there weren't any boundaries in music. You could chant, scream or grunt. You could say things people don't understand. He used to say he was my godfather. He would say, "Son, listen. I have to tell you something important: olive oil. Every day I want you to put it in your hair. It's gonna make your hair strong...
...culture will note that the two will spill into each other,” he said. “Culture will influence the way blacks do politics.” However, not everyone in attendance shared Terry’s views. Tricia Rose, a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, said that hip hop has lost its political potential due to its commercialization. “The ghetto has become a product; something to be consumed, something to be worn,” she said, adding that hip hop has become an enterprise that exploits its environment. Rose also...