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Ellen Davis, a vice president at the National Retail Federation, says she started noticing a pickup in retail sales in January but believes economic indicators such as unemployment and the health of the stock market will play a major role in spending habits as the year progresses. "Jobs really is the biggest issue here," she says...
Dunster House alumni have also made their way into politics. Alumni include former Vice President Al Gore '69, Senator Al Franken '73, and Massachusetts Governor Deval S. Patrick '78. Other famous alumni include actor Tommy Lee Jones '69, Gore's roommate, and author Norman K. Mailer...
...crossroads - we were on the wrong road. We went from race cars to safe cars, and it was turning people off." NASCAR admitted as much, and in January the circuit announced that it was loosening its grip. "Boys, have at it," said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president of competition...
...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 were Toomey's prospects that Senator Orrin Hatch, the vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, lamented to Politico.com, "I don't think there is anybody in the world who believes he can get elected Senator there." (See pictures from the Pennsylvania Senate race...
...politicians acting like politicians - making bellicose statements prior to the war, then criticizing Bush for rushing in when no WMD turned up. Touché. But then he goes a step too far. "Perhaps the most pathetic display of hypocrisy came from one of America's most embittered politicians: former Vice President Al Gore," Rove writes. He proceeds to quote a 2002 Gore speech: "We know that [Saddam] has stored away supplies of biological weapons and chemical weapons throughout his country." Rove's busy-beaver oppo researchers should get credit for digging up that one ... except that it was delivered...