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...only people whose credibility is at stake are people trying to invent issues out of thin air." STEVE SCHMIDT, White House spokesman, on Democrats questioning the integrity of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito after a 1985 memorandum surfaced last week in which Alito spells out his strategy for "overruling Roe v. Wade," which safeguards the rights of women in the U.S. to have an abortion...
...when the U.S., in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks, ousted the Taliban and sent bin Laden into hiding. And as al-Zarqawi's stature has risen, his relationship with bin Laden has apparently grown more complex and contentious, like that of an apprentice who has eclipsed his master. At stake in their struggle for control, say those who track the two men, is the future of the global Islamic terrorist movement and its war with the U.S. and its allies...
...Season 2, they range in age from 22 to 51, so they have their own sense of self and aesthetics, unlike the eager-to-please singbots that roll down the Idol assembly line). Runway, which gives the winner $100,000 seed money and a car, has no financial stake in the winner's future-whereas Idol signs its champ to a contract with its producer-so the judges encourage creative risks, not commercial acceptability. And unlike The Apprentice, it ultimately rewards talent, not backstabbing. (Last season the one designer who played mind games, Wendy Pepper, was roundly defeated...
...John F. Voith III ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07 came into the campaign season on the defensive. Early this fall, someone close to Voith purchased www.HaddockRiley.com with complete disregard for the ethical, and even legal, implications at stake. Voith and Gadgil undoubtedly deserve credit for returning the site to John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07 in a swift manner, and it was possible to imagine an internal snafu led to one insubordinate aide going astray...
...idea is hot enough to entice IBM into taking a 5% stake in the company and incorporating Voice. Trust into its online-commerce platform. Other big customers include Microsoft and HSBC. Voice.Trust is being used within corporate networks for employee verification...