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19 hours ago ago from McKinsey: What Matters
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10 hours ago ago from Catholic Exchange
What importance has the recent Swiss referendum to ban the building of minarets (spires next to mosques from which the call to prayer is issued)? Some may see the 57.5 to 42.5 percent decision endorsing a constitutional amendment as nearly meaningless. The political establishment being overwhelmingly opposed to the amendment, the ban will probably never go into effect. Only 53.4 percent of the electorate voted, so a mere 31 percent of ...
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1: Which was NOT a major success of Reconstruction in the South? an end to racist government policies the transformation into an industralized, urban region an end to tensions between the North and South all of the above 2: The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights gain control of the state legislatures restore the Confederacy improve the conditions ...
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The Pledge of Allegiance to the United States is an oath of loyalty to the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892. The Pledge has been modified four times since then, with the most recent change adding the words under God in 1954. The Pledge is predominantly sworn by children in public schools in response to state laws requiring the Pledge to be offered. Congressional sessions open with the ...
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A group of 87 Democratic lawmakers presented Tuesday a draft bill for comprehensive immigration reform that would pave the way to legalize undocumented immigrants in the United States. President Barack Obama has said he wants to recognize and legalize undocumented immigrants in the United States, but the White House's intentions have been hampered by a host [...]
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2 hours ago ago from The New York Times
COPENHAGEN With time running out on the stalled Copenhagen climate negotiations, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave new hope that an agreement might still be reached when she announced on Thursday that the United States would participate in a $100-billion-a-year fund to help poor nations combat climate change through the end of the next decade. Global Warming Recent developments on the politics of global warming with ...
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4 hours ago ago from The New York Times
COPENHAGEN With just two days remaining in historic and contentious climate talks here, China signaled overnight that it sees virtually no possibility that the nearly 200 nations gathered would find agreement by Friday. Global Warming Recent developments on the politics of global warming with background, analysis, timelines and earlier events from NYTimes.com and Google. Multimedia Related ...
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Special From Mother Jones, By David Corn As Bolivian President Evo Morales was thundering in the press briefing room of the Copenhagen climate summit on Wednesday--railing about the "guilt of the countries of the North" and denouncing President Barack Obama for spending more on the war in Afghanistan than on climate change programs for the developing world--Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) was 100 yards away in a crowded room, delivering a ...
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Mother Jones : You used to be able to count on the United States to be the bad guys at United Nations climate conferences. But this year, while the Obama administration's pledges aren't as ambitious as some might like, the US government is more willing to combat global warming than it has been for years. That's left our northern neighbor, Canada, to emerge as the summit's major stinker. Read the whole story: Mother Jones
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