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Obama outlines job-creation plan — (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday offered an outline of his economic recovery plan and jobs were the top priority. — American workers will rebuild the nation's roads and bridges, modernize its schools and create more sources of alternative energy …
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Obama economic plan aims for 2.5M new jobs by 2011 — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools …
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Bush Appointees Land Career Science Jobs With Seemingly Unrelated Backgrounds — Bush Appointees Land Career Jobs Without Technical Backgrounds — The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political …
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AS BAD AS IT GETS — “And you thought her media outings as a vice presidential candidate were as bad as it gets,” says alarmed MSNBC host David Shuster ... following footage of Sarah Palin speaking at a turkey processing plant: — Shuster (who urges that young viewers be shielded from the interview) …
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Obama Selects $30K Private School for Girls — Barack Obama's two girls will attend Sidwell Friends—the same school Chelsea Clinton attended. — The reported middle school tuition rate is around $30,000 for each girl per year.
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President-elect Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama Decide to Send Daughters …
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Obama Tilts to Center, Inviting a Clash of Ideas — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination with the enthusiastic support of the left wing of his party, fueled by his vehement opposition to the decision to invade Iraq and by one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate.
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A Time for Thanksgiving — Obama's debt of gratitude to George W. Bush. — As the transition progresses and Barack Obama's inauguration draws closer, it's a good moment to mull the gifts George W. Bush has left for the incoming president. Bush has made the world a better place …
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Clear and Present Danger — The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guantánamo are there for good reason. — On Sunday, November 16, CBS News's 60 Minutes broadcast the first interview with President-elect Barack Obama.
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The Saturday Cartoons — And here's our friends at Headzup showing us James Dobson celebrating the passage of California's Proposition 8 by asking WWJF? — And, via The Onion, we have a few minutes with Andy Rooney — well, China's version of the 60 Minutes commenter-in-chief …
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Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, after spending almost a year on the run.
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Carter, Annan, others refused entry to Zimbabwe — JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan and two eminent colleagues visit the impoverished African country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday. — The former U.N. secretary-general …
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Hot Air
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Time for Him to Go — Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. — Seriously. We have an economy that's crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks …
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For president-elect, a brief taste of normalcy at home — A routine, yet surreal, existence sequestered in a security bubble — President-elect Barack Obama greets the lunch crowd at Manny's Coffee Shop & Deli on South Jefferson Street as he stops to pick up sandwiches and pie.
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Somali rebels take steps to attack tanker pirates — MOGADISHU (Reuters) Islamist militants in Somalia took steps on Saturday to attack pirates behind the world's biggest hijack and rescue the captured Saudi Arabian supertanker, an Islamist spokesman said. — The Sirius Star …
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The New Deal Didn't Always Work, Either — MANY people are looking back to the Great Depression and the New Deal for answers to our problems. But while we can learn important lessons from this period, they're not always the ones taught in school. — The traditional story …
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Fed Official Is Said to Be Choice for Treasury — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama will name Timothy F. Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to be his Treasury secretary, moving to fill a key post at a moment when the quavering financial markets are looking …
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Assembly Line — Debunking the myth of the $70-per-hour autoworker. — If you've been following the auto industry's crisis, then you've probably read or heard a lot about overpaid American autoworkers—in particular, the fact that the average hourly employee of the Big Three makes $70 per hour.
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