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Obama Lights White House Diwali Lamp
From Aseem Shukla, Newsweek/Washington Post:
The Dow Jones reached a significant milestone yesterday, and news outlets were abuzz with excitement. Olympia Snowe’s vote for the Baucus bill was plenty fodder for the 24-hour news cycles. But, for Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists in the United States, an epochal event transpired at the White House afternoon that [...]
President Obama to deliver eulogy at Ted Kennedy’s funeral
From the Times of India:
In a touching gesture, US President Barack Obama will deliver a eulogy at the funeral mass of Senator Edward Kennedy on Saturday.
Quoting White House officials
, The Boston Globe said Obama will deliver a eulogy at Kennedy’s funeral mass, which has been scheduled for Saturday at The Basilica of Our Lady of [...]
Views on the White House “Beer Summit”
From The Hindu:
In an effort to douse down a racial firestorm, US President Barack Obama had a glass of beer with professor Henry Gates and police Sergeant, who had arrested the Harvard professor for ‘disorderly conduct’.
Sitting along a picnic table next to the White House’s new swing set, the three were yesterday seen drinking beer [...]
Fortune Magazine’s Allan Sloan on Goldman Sachs squabble with Uncle Sam
From Fortune Magazine’s Allan Sloan:
Goldman Sachs bites Uncle Sam’s hand
The investment bank is fat and happy again, but you wouldn’t know it from its squabbling with the Treasury over the warrants in the TARP deal.
NEW YORK (Fortune) — I’ve always thought that the guys running Goldman Sachs were really smart, not only about making money, [...]
Health Care Debate: Who are the Blue Dog Democrats?
From OpenSecrets.com:
How to Teach a Blue Dog Red Tricks
Published by Anit Jindal on August 24, 2008 9:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
(CORRECTION, 8/25/08: The original posting of this story said that Genworth is a subsidiary of General Electric. The text below has been corrected to reflect that Genworth Financial has not [...]