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...book Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama wrote of his return to Kenya, "I began to imagine an unchanging rhythm of days, lived on firm soil where you could wake up each morning and know that all was as it had been yesterday, where you saw how the things that you used had been made and could recite the lives of those who had made them." And so it is. Among the gathering Obamas are cousins Olga and Sasha, whose father married a Russian; cousin John Kennedy, who changed his name when he moved to the nearby city of Kisumu...
...election's over. Somebody wake up FRED THOMPSON...
...separate units partly because the old structure, he said, encouraged "the blurring of the true risk-reward profile of individual businesses." In July, the Institute of International Finance, which counts large banks and insurance companies among its members, put out a 174-page report detailing best practices in the wake of the financial crisis. Among them: developing a corporate culture of risk awareness, integrating analysis of different sorts of risks instead of keeping them in silos, and basing compensation on risk-adjusted performance and long-term, firm-wide profitability...
...close is Missouri? One last-minute GOP poll of 800 likely voters found a 400 to 400 split. Political veterans in this perennial swing state are predicting a long night and potential chaos at the polls. "We could all be blowing smoke rings and wake up to a blowout, but my sense is it's going down to the wire," says Republican consultant Paul Zemitzsch of St. Louis...
Here is my question to you, liberal Ivy League elites: What will you do if the Republican Party wins a third consecutive term? What will you do if you wake up tomorrow knowing that the mavericks are getting ready to take over? I have been posing this question in dining halls for weeks now, and not once have I received a dispassionate reply. Most involved some combination of suicide and moving to Canada...