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...Take the case of Democratic Congressman Bruce Braley. Braley, who represents northeastern Iowa, won his seat from Jim Nussle, a Republican who retired to serve as head of the White House's Office of Management and Budget. Braley campaigned heavily on fair trade and won with a relatively comfortable margin of 55% for a freshman in a split district...
...Democratic leadership, I'm surprised at,"Bruce Raynor, president of UNITE Here, a textile and service employees union, told reporters on a conference call opposing the Peru bill this week. "I think they failed to remember that in the last election many Democrats were elected to the House and Senate on the issue of failed trade policy...
That's fine by Congress, which is considering a $5 billion "permanent disaster fund" to streamline these bailouts for persistent failures. "The system doesn't serve any consistent public-policy goal," says economist Bruce Babcock, director of Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development. "It only makes sense if the mission is finding ways to shovel money to farmers...
...pushed it back to December 10th.) Some 25 million fans surged online for that show's 18,000 tickets, crashing the arena's website (which goes to show that online, the O2 still has some way to go in terms of dealing with expectations). Other upcoming big draws include Bruce Springsteen, the long awaited return of the Spice Girls, (whose tour sold out in 38 seconds) and Kanye West...
...After a few years, he moved to London, where he continued to write reviews and celebrity profiles. In 1960 he talked his way into a trip to New York with a group of architects visiting the city's buildings and did a story for the Yorkshire Post on Lenny Bruce, whom he saw at the Village Vanguard and corralled outside for a 10-minute interview. Stoppard was taken by the irreverent comic (he even recalls some of his jokes, like Bruce's plea for world peace, urging all the nations of the world to get together and "kick...