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CORRECTED-More tax lobbyists working Washington's hallways
Reuters(Corrects 8th paragraph to make clear 6,500 is maximum number of tax lobbyists in 2011-2012; deletes paragraph 9 on lobbyists per lawmaker) By Nanette Byrnes May 15 (Reuters) - The ranks of lobbyists are growing in Washington again as Congress flirts...Tags: Max Baucus, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Justice System, Lobbying, Bernard Sanders
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Ricin suspect believed he was in 'secret war'
WASHINGTON — In the early-morning hours before he was arrested on suspicion of sending a poison-laced letter to the president of the United States, Paul Kevin Curtis was typing messages on his Facebook profile. Over the previous few days, the 45-...
Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Justice System, Culture, Roger F. Wicker, Arts and Culture
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Carefully crafting the Barack Obama 'brand'
Washington BureauOne evening in February 2005, in a four-hour meeting stoked by pepperoni pizza and grand ambition, Sen. Barack Obama and his senior advisers crafted a strategy to fit the Obama "brand." The charismatic celebrity-politician had rocketed from the...Tags: Civil Rights, Laws, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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Baltimore City, P.G. County sent largest numbers to 'who's who' Vegas convention
The Baltimore SunSince the weekend, Las Vegas has served as a sort of glitzy Maryland West -- with government and business leaders from the state attending the Global Retail Real Estate Convention in droves. With galas and events at casinos, the annual four-day...Tags: General Growth Properties, Inc., Business Enterprises, Malcolm Gladwell, Howard County, Ken Ulman
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State and Annapolis fail to disclose Vegas trip spending by legal deadline
The Baltimore SunWhen it comes to responding to public information acts quickly, the state's larger jurisdictions could learn a lot from tiny Havre de Grace. Back in May, about 40 members from the state and seven local governments attended the Global Retail Real Estate...Tags: Malcolm Gladwell, Maryland Public Information Act, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, ABC (tv network), Economy, Business and Finance
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Mississippi abortion case heard by GOP-appointed judge
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Restricting abortion has long been a conservative goal in Mississippi, and now, a Republican-appointed federal judge is considering the constitutionality of the state's stringent new abortion law. Those who know U.S....
Tags: Republican Party, Abortion Issue, Social Issues, Politics, Justice System
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Sorry in advance, Jesse Jackson
EVENTUALLY, I'M going to write something horribly offensive. And when I do, it might be several tense hours before I can get Jesse Jackson on the phone in order to apologize to him. So I figured I'd call him now and pre-apologize. In addition to...Tags: Phil McGraw, Racism, Michael Richards, Arbitration, Jesse Jackson
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A race conversation? What are you talking about?
Thank God for Barack Obama. For until his "More Perfect Union" speech last Tuesday, it seems it never occurred to anyone that America needed to talk about race. "Maybe this'll be the beginning of a conversation," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan...Tags: Entertainment, Defense, Milan Kundera, Arts and Culture, O.J. Simpson
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Mississippi Casinos Trump Katrina
Times Staff WriterBILOXI, Miss. — From the balconies of the Isle of Capri Casino, Mississippi's once-glittering coastline spreads toward the horizon like an allegory of bad luck — a nightmare vision of heaped debris, buildings stripped to beams and traffic...Tags: Entertainment, Sports, Meteorological Disasters, Casino and Gambling, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Jonah Goldberg: Why Trent Lott?
WHO SAYS the Republicans are the Stupid Party? Huge numbers of voters told exit pollsters that they were disgusted with the nigh-upon Roman excesses of the GOP; the self-dealing, the pork-barrel spending, the aloofness was just too much. Meanwhile,...Tags: Republican Party, Racism, Olympia J. Snowe, Strom Thurmond, Parliament
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No more edicts, Jesse
JOHN RIDLEY is a novelist, screenwriter and political commentator who wrote about race relations in the December issue of Esquire.WHEN EMBATTLED, uh, comedian Michael Richards sat down with the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday, the big news wasn't his repeating, for the 1,000th time, that he had no idea where all that "nigger" stuff came from, didn't mean to hurt anybody, feels terrible...Tags: Entertainment, Colin Powell, Racism, Michael Richards, Jesse Jackson
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