Mural painter Ron English stood contentedly before his fine Obama-Lincoln composite portrait on the side of a building on Thayer Street in Boston last July 2, 2008. The mural was an outdoor expression of his installation in Gallery XIV’, which passed out poster copies of the art that soon were pasted publicly across the city. [...]
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Hard-line Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu and ruling Kadima Party Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni have both claimed victory in Israel’s parliamentary election Tuesday, which early returns suggested is still too close to call.
Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu
greets supporters at the Likud election
headquarters at the convention center
in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009.
(AP Photo/Odd Andersen)
With [...]
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today unveiled details of the Obama administration’s plans to address the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.Initially dealing with the second half of the $700 billion banking bailout approved under the Bush administration, the new Obama administration program could eventually channel up to $2 [...]
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When it comes to the evolving economic stimulus plan, we citizens need to warn Congress not to repeat the primal mistakes in the Bush era of rushing to enact bills that have not been fully studied, debated and amended for the higher good. Urgent fear-mongering by the administration gave us the convoluted mess of the [...]
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that he hopes the Senate can conclude negotiations on the final stimulus package and vote on the package before adjournment this evening. The PBS News Hour tonight has reported a breakthough in the talks for a deal valued at $780 billion.”The world is waiting to see what we’re [...]
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Breaking news: Court rules for Franken in Senate ballot case
A three-judge Minnesota court this afternoon has rejected 13 to 17 of the 19 categories of absentee ballots at the center of the case brought by Republic Norm Coleman in his attempt to erase a narrow vote margin favoring Democrat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate race.
Al Franken (AP File Photo)
Democrats hope Franken will [...]
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