| Haven’t We Heard This Voice Before?
Clinton's later quasi tears, Tuesday's vote speaks for itself. In her 2.6 percentage-point, 7,500-vote victory, Mrs. Clinton beat Mr. Obama among women voters by 12 percentage points only five days after he carried them by 5 points in Iowa. As we reopen the gender wars, let's not forget that it's 2008, not 1968. There are actually some men who are offended by sexist male behavior too. Or by the female misogyny exemplified by the South Carolina woman who asked John McCain in November, "How do we beat the bitch?" And so an exciting and healthy mano-a-mano battle for the Democratic presidential nomination is finally on. (The biggest losers in New Hampshire's primary, no one need be reminded, were pollsters and the press.) But if Mrs. Clinton prompted many to give her candidacy a fresh look in the New Hampshire stretch, her victory speech was, to skeptics like myself, a step back.
Norlarco says approximately $52 million lost, 1,500 members gone
Norlarco Credit Union continued to bleed deposits and depositors five weeks after federal regulators confirmed they had seized the organization and dismissed its board of directors. Norlarco lost $20 million in deposits and nearly 900 members from Aug. 31 to Sept. 30, according to the statement of financial condition released Tuesday. .
SPCA reveals details about disgraced Atlanta Falcons quarterback ...
In December, Vick, who'd been a starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons before this season, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for running a dogfighting operation.
SPCA Shelter Supervisor Justin Phillips was a member of the nine-person team that evaluated the dogs in September.
As part of the team, Phillips traveled to Virginia and performed high-level, pit bull-specific evaluations of each individual dog.
"We are extremely proud that Justin was selected to be a part of the evaluation team," says Gary Tiscornia, executive director with the local SPCA. "We are pleased to have Justin, an expert in his field, as part of our SPCA team making a profound difference in the lives of animals both in the Vick case and for all animals in our community."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
SLM Corporation to Announce Third-Quarter 2007 Earnings, Host ...
RESTON, Va., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SLM Corporation (NYSE: SLM) , commonly known as Sallie Mae, today announced that it will release 2007 third- quarter earnings results prior to the opening of U.S. stock markets on Thursday, Oct. 11. Sallie Mae Chairman Albert Lord and CEO C.E. Andrews will host a conference for shareholders the same day to discuss the company's recent performance and future outlook. Executives' remarks will begin at noon EDT at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City and will conclude by 1 p.m. EDT. Shareholders may participate in the Oct. 11 meeting in person or via conference call. To attend in person, please respond to rsvp@salliemae.com by noon, Oct. 9. To participate in the call, dial (877) 356-5689 (USA and Canada) or dial (706) 679-0623 (International) and use access code 5437761 starting at 11:45 a.m.
Colin Hanks discusses dad
It's something that, for better or worse, is going to be with me forever, which I'm totally comfortable with," Colin told Entertainment Weekly magazine. "I'm looking forward to a time in my career when it's not one of the things that's sort of mentioned later on. But I'm much more comfortable with it now than when I started, because it's just not something that I obsess about that much. He continued: "It was sort of frustrating at first because everyone would ask me all these questions, and I'd be like, 'I don't know! I've never looked at it that way'. But now, I'm 30 years old, I've been doing this for enough time now where it's not that big of a deal." According to Colin, Tom's son by first wife Samantha Lewes, he and his famous dad don't talk too much about work.
Stocks battle back; Dow loses 128
The Dow, for example, is down nearly 10 percent since the beginning of the year logging its worst first 14 trading days of the year ever. It is more than 15 percent since its record close of 14,16.53 on Oct. 9, and is at its lowest close since Oct. 17, 2006. Investors are well aware that housing worries remain: Many adjustable-rate mortgages similar to those that went bad last year will still be adjusted higher, and home prices are expected to keep falling this year. Financial companies have lost billions due to those mortgages, retail sales are falling and companies in general arent on a spending spree. Investors, institutional and individual, are also in a defensive mode, one that an interest cut wont immediately change. In the week ended Jan. 15, when many on Wall Street believed a rate cut was in the offing, investors shoveled money into cash reserves at a record pace, according to iMoneyNet.
Chengdu reform: Merging rural and urban
On August 20, a large-scale campaign involving tens of thousands of officials was launched in southwest China's Sichuan Province. These officials, used to working in urban government agencies, were asked to move their desks to the backward rural areas for next two years. Besides their desks, they are expected to bring the villages their advanced concepts, valuable networking resources, and help develop the local economy. The pilot program "Officials going to rural areas" has already been implemented more than half a year ago in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan. Meanwhile, "farmers going to cities", another parallel program, has also been implemented in Chengdu. Wenjiang District, a subordinate prefecture of Chengdu City, is putting in place a reform that incorporates villages into a part of a city and changes the identity of farmers into urban citizens.
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