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Humble Musing: May 2008
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Social enterprise in Saudi. A Saudi nonprofit, is offering job training for women who are widowed, divorced or otherwise cut off from income. They will perform maintenance work in women's colleges and schools. But how will they get there. Still no women in Kuwait's National Assembly. As Nathan Brown predicted. Kuwait's National Assembly elections. Did not produce a single successful female candidate, though 27 ran. Via Arab News) anticipates little change following the elections.
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The Reference Desk: Transcript for The Rachel Maddow Show, January 4, 2010
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Monday, January 4, 2010. Transcript for The Rachel Maddow Show, January 4, 2010. Guests: Richard Wolffe, E.J. Dionne, Jonathan Cohn, Kent Jones. RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: Happy New Year to you, Keith. It‘s great to have you back. Thanks. But the question here is whether or not the systemic failure that the president has talked about was anything more than human error. Was this some kind of failure because of the system‘s internal tensions? Or was there actu...
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The Reference Desk: May 2009
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Torture Memos: Inquiry Suggests No Prosecutions. The New York Times reports:. An internal Justice Department inquiry has concluded that Bush administration lawyers committed serious lapses of judgment in writing secret memorandums authorizing brutal interrogations but that they should not be prosecuted, according to government officials briefed on its findings. But they would stop short of the criminal referral sought by some huma...
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The Reference Desk: September 2008
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Thursday, September 18, 2008. It's the Derivatives, Stupid! Why Fannie, Freddie and AIG Had to Be Bailed Out. I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.". 8211; Sir Isaac Newton, after losing a fortune in the South Sea bubble. The Fed is buying an insurance company? Where exactly is that covered in the Federal Reserve Act? Why not let the free market work? The Anatomy of a Bubble. Since then, derivative trades have grown exp...
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The Reference Desk: October 2008
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Tuesday, October 21, 2008. One Day Doesn't Make A Trend. Despite signs that the credit markets may be thawing, don’t expect banks to start handing out loans to Main Street — at least not to anyone who needs them, Andrew Ross Sorkin says in his latest DealBook column in The New York Times. At the New York Times. Andrew Ross Sorkin writes:. The banks aren’t lending. And despite what you have heard, they probably won’t start just yet. But make no mistake,...
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The Reference Desk: October 2009
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Friday, October 16, 2009. 400 Per Gallon Gas To Drive Debate Over Cost Of War In Afghanistan. The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan. The statistic is likely to play into the escalating debate in Congress over the cost of a war that entered its ninth year last week. The Pentagon comptroller’s office provided the fuel statistic to the committee staff when it was asked for a bre...
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The Reference Desk: February 2009
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Friday, February 27, 2009. Senate Backs D.C. Voting Rights, But Some Local Activists Call For Statehood. The District of Columbia has moved a step closer to getting a vote in the House of Representatives. On Thursday, the Senate voted 61-to-37 to expand the size of the House by two seats, giving Washington, D.C. a single seat and giving Utah a fourth seat. Democracy Now! For Democracy in DC. She opposes the bill before Congress. She says it fal...Let&#...
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The Reference Desk: December 2008
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Thursday, December 11, 2008. Jim Rogers Calls Most Big U.S. Banks "Bankrupt". Jim Rogers, one of the world's most prominent international investors, on Thursday called most of the largest U.S. banks "totally bankrupt," and said government efforts to fix the sector are wrongheaded. Some of the funds are being used for acquisitions. Now a specialist in commodities, Rogers said he has used the recent rally in the U.S. dollar as an opportunity to e...While...
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The Reference Desk: July 2008
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Reference materials' site for The Constant American. Saturday, July 26, 2008. Paul Camp, Liberals Unite On Spy Bill. At the Wall Street Journal. The fight over immunity for telecom companies in domestic-spying legislation is creating an unexpected side effect: unity among liberal bloggers and Ron Paul supporters. Both groups are upset about a provision in the bill that would provide retroactive immunity from civil actions for telecom companies alleged to have provided information to the government as par...
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Woodstock Booktalk with Martha Frankel: Episode 114 - December 11, 2016
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Woodstock Booktalk with Martha Frankel. Now displaying: Page 1. Get the podcast on iTunes! Episode 114 - December 11, 2016. Dec 11, 2016. Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Luvvie Ajayi. This week's sponsors: Greer Chicago. And Bistro To Go. 2016 Woodstock Booktalk Martha Frankel.