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Rahm Emanuel's Freddie Mac profits
The Swampby Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up, huge fines and scalding......Tags: White House, Punishment, George W. Bush, Financial and Business Services, Local Elections
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CDC director named: N.Y. commissioner
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama today named Dr. Thomas Frieden, currently commissioner of the New York City Health Department, to serve as director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Rich Besser, who has served as......Tags: White House, Swine Flu Epidemic (2009), Health and Safety at School, Education, Emergency Planning
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Obama to grads: 'Body of work' ahead
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama addressed squarely, and with a measure of humor, tonight the very words that a public university had used this year in refusing to confer an honorary degree upon a president, a graduate of Harvard......Tags: Colleges and Universities, Fires, Children, Thomas Paine, Super Bowl
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Sotomayor: 'Piece of cake,' she's told
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama already knew one of the finalists for the Supreme Court whom he was considering: federal Judge Diane Wood of Chicago, a fellow teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But the president......Tags: Colleges and Universities, White House, George W. Bush, University of Chicago, Anti Trust Crime
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Obama's Italian rep: Kerry's old friend
The Swampby Mark Silva In the diplomatic trade, the hardship embassies go to career diplomats. The posh posts often go to the privileged and campaign contributors. So it goes in Rome, where the American ambassador resides in a gardened villa the......Tags: White House, Montana, San Marino, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Social Issues
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BET, Lil Wayne Get Rapped Over "Every Girl"
The TV ZoneOh man, THIS is what happens when I don't watch an awards show in its glorious entirety: A controversy breaks out and I gotta catch up hours later. First, Don Lemon of CNN has an interview with Joe Jackson......Tags: CNN (tv network), New York, Music, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Viacom Inc.
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Obama's Supreme Court: Stevens next?
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who only recently celebrated his first appointment to the Supreme Court this summer, may see another opportunity soon. New speculation about the timing of the first-term president's second chance to shape the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, John Paul Stevens, National Government, Politics, Barack Obama
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Chelsea Clinton engaged, village happy
The Swampby Mark Silva Chelsea Clinton is engaged. The only child of the former president and current secretary of state is engaged to be married to the son of a former congressman from Iowa and congresswoman from Pennsylvania: Investment banker Marc......Tags: Colleges and Universities, Chelsea Clinton, Celebrities and Health Issues, National Government, Barack Obama
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Should Obama rethink JFK-Khrushchev?
The SwampPhotograph from the U.S. State Department in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. by Frank James Sen. Barack Obama, who received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, took a hit today from two other Columbia men,......Tags: The New York Times, John F. Kennedy, Jessie James, Government, National Government
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Paterson diagnosis: Glaucoma
Spin CycleGov. Paterson was diagnosed Tuesday with acute glaucoma in his left eye and was to undergo a "routine procedure" to relieve the pressure, his office says. Paterson, who turned 54 Tuesday, checked into Mount Sinai Medical Center earlier in......Tags: Politics, Hospitals and Clinics, Sports, Government, Sheldon Silver
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Wang has MILD calf strain
On the Yankees beatDon't everybody freak out at once, but Chien-Ming Wang has a very mild strain of his right calf. He came in with a little irritation, which he said first occurred when he covered first base in the seventh inning against......Tags: New York, New York Mets, Chien-Ming Wang
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Obama's NCAA: Kansas over Kentucky
The Swampby Mark Silva Barack Obama has got some game on the court, but he's playing it safe, the way conventional wisdom goes, in his NCAA final four picks. The president, as he has before, today announced his Final Four prediction......Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NCAA Final Four, Football, ESPN (tv network)
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