... , such as General Electric, United Airlines, and Walgreens, among others, agreed to hire more than 3,000 people since his administration began. He also said the city will focus on filling existing positions to really bring down the unemployment rate (Schneiderman). "There are 120,000 job openings in Chicago," said Emanuel, who served as the former White House senior staffer. "Yet we ... city's community college and job training programs and encouraged them to train workers to succeed in today's modern jobs but also in the jobs of tomorrow. Notoriously known for his aggressive brand of po...

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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...

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... regulation takes money from banks and gives it to retailers, but retailers have announced no plans to pass on the savings to customers (The Chicago Tribune). However, even Durbin disagrees with the bank's decision to maintain profits by charging customers. "Bank of America is trying to find new ways to pad its profits by sticking it to its customers," he said (The Chicago Tribune). The backlash from their most ... recent announcement about the debit card fee spans far and wide, showing up across the Web on message boards and social media, as well as on cable news channels. Gerri Willis ...

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... we were in the last - a country that makes things. A country that out-builds and out-innovates the rest of the world," Obama said of the partnership (Lee). "Their mission is to come up with a way to get ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor to the marketplace as swiftly as possible, which will help create quality jobs, and make our businesses more competitive," Obama ... the effect of federal rules on hiring (Kuhnhnen). "The job creators we hear from, they don't have their hand out," she said. "They don't want a bailout. All they ask us to do is get government out of t...

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... himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said ... Ingraham, Cain suddenly remembered the instance. "The word settlement suggested to me some sort of legal settlement," he explained about the mix-up,...

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... , even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve" (Bilton). A recent interview with ... the member whose online alias is "Topiary" said the group planned to continue their campaign for quite a while. When asked if he feared being caught, he replied, "Worrying is for fools!" (Bilton). However, ...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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... legitimate, drawing even more investors into the scheme. Also called a "pyramid scheme", it is the slimiest of slimy dealings, because the perpetrator knows exactly what he's doing. This is what Bernie Madoff has admitted he did to his investors. He has basically said that the money from the last investors "is gone", probably into an offshore account somewhere where he can get it after he ... gets out of prison. Our government has said that we, the taxpayers, have to give to the bankers (who are, by the way ... know they're taking a risk, and it's their choice whether or not to do so. ...

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... latest weapon - sexual humiliation. After Mubarak's resignation, Egypt's military, which had formerly chosen not to take part in the revolution, officially took control of the nation's political apparatus as well, until an agreed-upon constitution could be constructed and elections could be conducted (Amin). The protest occurred on March 9th in Tahrir Square. Eighteen other protests had already occurred ... there leading up to Mubarak's resignation. However, unlike the previous demonstrations, the Egyptian military targeted the protestors, calling for ... evidence of prostitution," Ho...

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... been further expanded since that time and offers a variety of incentives for both businesses and individuals. The overall goal of the Act is to "jumpstart the economy." Individuals and couples filing Federal Income Tax Returns for 2007, even up until the late filing deadline of Oct. 15, ... 000 in income, or the $2400 rebate amount mentioned above. In addition, after lobbying by groups supporting senior citizens, social security payments were added to the "eligible" income, so most seniors on fixed incomes who filed a tax return and did not owe tax over the amount of the rebate ... mill...

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... after serving only eight years of a life sentence because of his ill health. He was diagnosed with prostrate cancer and given three months to live. However, the US and other Western governments have grown increasingly aggravated that he has outlived his sentence and demanded his return following ... refuses to extradite al-Megrahi. The justice minister of Libya's transitional council believes that extraditing el-Megrahi would put him on the same level as Muammar el-Qaddafi in terms of betrayal (Kirkpatrick). "Al-Megrahi has already been judged once and he will not be judged again," said t...

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The Notre Dame campus is still in shock over the sudden death of Declan Sullivan, a junior studying film marketing and television and theater (Gay). Sullivan was filming a football practice atop a scissor lift, a portable hydraulic lift that allows people to videotape team drills from as high as 40 feet above practice field, when the lift collapsed from high winds (Auman). The afternoon that Sullivan died winds reached up to 51 mph in South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. Students even struggled to walk to class (Hall). Hours before his death, Sullivan tweeted about his predic...

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... is boring, but it is also the harsh reality faced by those who make money by loaning money. Competitive lending practices of the last 15 years have kept interest rates at bay. In the 1980s home owners were faced with interest rates on their mortgages that were double digits as a standard. Nowadays, those sorts of rates would be ... considered Usury. Mortgage rates in some cases have been 3 percent with a national average that has hovered around 5 percent. Lower interest rates are the double edged sword of mortgage brokering. On one hand, it takes more loan sales to make a profit. On the ...

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In the southern Beaufort Sea, polar bears may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from obtaining food from their natural sources. Normally, polar bears feed primarily on ringed seals ... use sea ice for basic functions like feeding, mating and giving birth. American and Canadian scientists reviewed three examples of polar bears preying on each other from January to April 2004, in northern Alaska and western Canada. In one incident, a bear killed a female of the species in her den shortly after she had given ... birth. In the wild, polar bears do kill each ot...

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... the shortest, and most enduring speech ever delivered by an American President. In his eulogy for Lincoln on June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Summer called Lincoln's Gettysburg Address a "monumental act", and said that Lincoln was wrong in thinking that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." He went on ... to say that "The world noted at once what he said, and will never cease to remember it. The battle itself was less important than the speech." It's often said that it's not what you say, it's how you say it. Barack Obama pointed out during his ... rest of us. ...

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... and broad experience will provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy," Geithner said (Rooney). Lagarde will succeed Dominque Strauss-Kahn, who was recently arrested in New York for sexual assault. Lagarde is the first woman to hold this position and was selected by a consensus vote (Rooney), "I am deeply honored have the trust placed ... and esteem for my colleague and friend, Agustin Carstens," she said (Rooney). The global financial institution desperately needed a new leader because of their involvement with the European U...

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... revealed herself as a vulgar anti-Semite. Her suggestion that Zionists control government, finance, and Hollywood is nothing less than classic, garden-variety anti-Semitism," said the ADL's director, Abraham Foxman. "Through her words and deeds she has besmirched both herself and her profession. This is a sad final chapter to an otherwise illustrious career. Unlike her previous, spontaneous remarks into a camera, these words were carefully ... thought out and conscious. It shows a prejudice that is deep-seated and obsessive" (May). The executive director ... ...

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... Once there, he joked "I'm in the interest of being more neighborly. Maybe we would have gotten off on a better foot if I had brought over a fruitcake when I first moved in. But I'm going to make up for it." The two groups got off on a bad start after the Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars fighting Obama's health-care bills, opposing key elements of ... ads attacking the Democrats, an allegation that they have said is a "threat to our democracy" (Dennis). He then presented a speech aimed at demonstrating that Obama is not anti-business, where he expressed his plan to create jobs b...

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... , family, and friends on behalf of Murray (Ryan). "Regrettably the most significant chapter as it relates to this case is the chapter regarding treatment of lack of treatment of Michael Jackson," responded Judge Pastor (Ryan). He continued, "It should be made very clear that experimental medicine is not going to be tolerated, and Mr. Jackson was an experiment. The fact that he participated in it does not ... excuse or lessen the blame of Dr. Murray, who simply could have walked away and said no, as countless others did" (Ryan). Lead prosecutor, David Walgren, had ... gotten the electric...

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... York Assemblyman who formerly served as a member of the New York City council. Last year, he was elected to the state Assembly but failed in his campaign for city comptroller in 2009 (Carnia). "It is expected that David Weprin will be unanimously supported by the Democratic parties of Brooklyn and Queens," said Evan Stavisky (Koplowitz). Weprin will meet with Queens Democrats on July 7th ... to file paperwork announcing him as the Party's official pick. Weprin earned the candidacy because he was viewed as the ... "most loyal" to the local party, according to Capital Tonight. Weprin was...

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... from Libya into Tunisia aided by a defecting military officer and his family. Apparently, she left in a military car and was able to make it through several checkpoints disguised "in the local manner" and using a refugee document (The Huffington Post). Despite the original relief al ... -Obeidy's family felt after hearing about her escape, she may be in even worse trouble. While she was awaiting resettlement as a refugee, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was busily preparing ... and forced them onto a military plane leaving Qatar, despite the repeated requests from U...

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... ). Linda Fairstein, a crime writer, questions Diallo's motives were agreeing to interviews during this stage of the investigation. "As a prosecutor, the rule is you want your witness to speak in the courtroom, and not to the media," she said. "Interviews raise problems for prosecutors - even if the story is consistent, each interview gives the defense more possible details to cross examine her with. A mistake or a slip of the ... , who hasn't, and she's still the victim," explained James Cohen, professor of law at Fordham University (Trevelyan). Diallo, who is a 32-year-old immigrant from...

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... US should withdraw its troops immediately in order to avoid another Vietnam. Gorbachev praised President Obama for his decision to begin withdrawing troops next year, but also noted that the US would struggle to get out of the situation. "Victory is impossible in Afghanistan. Obama is right to pull the troops out. No matter how difficult it will be," Gorbachev said. However, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague ... commented that troops would not be withdrawn from the country until their "very difficult" work was complete (BBC). Gorbachev, who ... training of Afghan security forces in Rus...

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... in settings with high HIV-1 prevalence Prompted by the newfound study, the World Health Organization called an emergency meeting scheduled for January to advise women about the serious side effects. "We are going to be re-evaluating W.H.O.'s clinical recommendations on contraceptive use," said Mary Lyn Gaffeld, an epidemiologist at the organization's department of reproductive health and research. She described the contraceptive as "something that ... with or at risk of HIV-1, are urgently needed," said Morrison (MSNBC). In the interim, scientists plan to continue testing and researchin...

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... said the NATO airstrikes conquered his compound - not the rebel fighters - and vowed "martyrdom" in the ongoing uprising. Qaddafi militiamen staged a small counterattack to the rebel intruders and were able to stave off the attackers for quite some time (Kirkpatrick). "We believe that he is either in Tripoli or close to Tripoli. Sooner or later he will be found, alive and arrested - and hopefully that is the ... best outcome we want - or if he resists, he will be killed," said Guma el-Gamaty, a spokesman for ... the rebel party (Kirkpatrick). While rebel victory seems to be drawing clo...

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