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...includes those working part-time and those who have given up looking for work) at 16.8% and consumer confidence taking an unexpected 10-point drop in February, Americans are still feverishly chasing bargains. Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com, believes unemployment will hit 10.3% before peaking later this year...
...earlier version of this post stated that former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was a resident of Cabot House, not Eliot House. In fact, Bhutto lived in Cabot House first, then later moved to Eliot House...
...than 1,500 students and supporters rallied Wednesday at Virginia Commonwealth University to protest Cuccinelli's letter. Waving rainbow flags, chanting "Down With Hate" and wielding signs that read "Jesus Had 2 Dads, Too" and "Homophobia Is A Sin," the animated band assembled near the student union, before 200 later broke away and marched down a main road within blocks of the Virginia State Capitol...
...year later, those calculations have been tossed upside down. Obama's poll numbers have come back to earth. And the filibuster-proof Senate majority that Specter's defection delivered to the Democrats vanished when Massachusetts voters handed Teddy Kennedy's old seat to Scott Brown. Democratic control of the House is in jeopardy, and the party stands to lose at least a half-dozen seats in the Senate. "Unless something significant changes," political handicapper Charlie Cook wrote last month, Democrats "are headed toward the losses of the magnitude we saw in the midterm elections...
...whose candidacy drove Specter from the Republican Party. In 2004, Specter beat the far more conservative Toomey by a mere 17,000 votes of the million cast in the Republican primary - which is one reason Specter realized he couldn't win a rematch against him four years later in a primary that would be decided by a smaller, more conservative party base. After Specter's party switch, Toomey was down in the polls by 20 points against Specter in a general-election matchup. The GOP scouted unsuccessfully for a more moderate candidate, like popular former governor Tom Ridge. So dark...