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...time when polls have shown her lagging behind here, Clinton was the first to the local rope lines, arriving in Seattle late Thursday evening and heading immediately to a gritty corner of the city's port, where she told about 5,000 people gathered in a hangar-like cruise ship terminal that they needed to elect a President who will be "a fighter, and a doer, and a champion for the American people." She took a shot at Obama, who was set to hold a large rally in Seattle's NBA basketball stadium on Friday morning, suggesting that his calls...
...been going on, but this latest development tells us something about ourselves that perhaps we’d be better off not knowing. One might be tempted to blame the enterprising programmers behind these Q-searching tools for leading Harvard students down the road of cynical educational technician-ship. Such a claim is unfair. They aren’t administering the poison; they’re just leaving it on the shelf for the children to find. No, we’re the ones to blame, sitting around in dining halls choosing our classes by scorecard, when we ought...
...Nearly all trains coming in and leaving from Shenzhen are delayed by seven or eight hours," says an executive at the company surnamed Feng. The company also owns more than 200 trucks but the snow "affects our highway transportation more than it does railways," Feng says. "We used to ship two 40-foot containers daily, but given the weather conditions, we stopped our truck traffic completely on the 25th." Although it's hard to give an exact number for the losses the company faces, they "will no doubt be substantial," Feng sighs...
...Société Générale is in crisis," added Finance Minister Christine Lagarde on the eve of the bank's board meeting. "The board members are there to decide whether or not the person in charge is the best one to steer the ship or if a change of captain is needed...
...Société Générale employees assembled in support of Bouton outside the bank's headquarters. They stressed the short-sightedness of vengefully sacking an otherwise proven manager just when the shattered bank most needs him. "You don't throw the captain overboard when the ship is sinking," said board member Philippe Pruvost, who represents employees...