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...year veteran of Harvard, Huntington held one of 21 prestigious University professorships. In his long and distinguished career, Huntington also advised then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his 1968 bid for the presidency, co-founded the magazine Foreign Policy, and twice served as chair of Harvard's government department...
...Santa makes a list and checks it twice...
...millions of workers at state-owned enterprises out of work. There were plenty of strikes and protests that made the government a little nervous, but overall, they were able to survive pretty well." Currently, the official figure is 4 million unemployed; but other estimates have the number at twice or three times that. (See pictures here of China's dust bowl...
...Dodge's parent company, Chrysler, isn't quite so optimistic. On Dec. 19, the Big Three automaker closed all of its factories for a month - twice as long as the usual year-end shutdown. Chrysler's sales were down 47% in November, even worse than the 37% decline for the industry over all. And all the grim headlines about Detroit's uncertain future aren't helping local salesman. At this sprawling dealership in suburban Kansas City, the biggest problem facing auto salesmen is squeamish buyers spooked by too much talk about bailouts and bankruptcies. "Our problem is getting them...
Scowcroft is that, but he's not actually "advising" Obama. The President-elect has only spoken to him twice, briefly, in the last year and not on substance. Obama's other attempts at outreach, though apparently sincere, seem equally symbolic, at least for now. Obama has had short conversations with Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz and former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and both men describe their conversations positively. But an Obama transition aide, when pressed about these contacts, admits that it is "not fair to put them in the category of advisers." Rick Warren and Obama...