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...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...Most recently, the 50-50 split in the Senate of the 107th Congress reflected the epic George W Bush-Al Gore presidential contest of 2000, when the result depended on the infamous “hanging chads” in Florida...
...Trump et al v....
...The same deference appeared to prevail in the North Carolina case, where a state elections board had extended ballot deadlines with the approval of a state court....
...Nearly 17 per cent of shareholders in Aston Martin rebelled against the re-election of executive chair Lawrence Stroll, the billionaire Canadian who rescued the luxury carmaker last year....
...I went back to the 2000 election. Al Gore, son of Tennessee, lost Tennessee. Lost the entire south, across the south. This is something that has been solidly Republican for a generation....
...Mr Trump, meanwhile, on Wednesday suggested voters in North Carolina should stress-test the security of their elections systems by voting twice — an act that is illegal under US law....
...Born in Pune, India, and raised in Mumbai, Sawant studied economics in North Carolina before becoming a software engineer at Nortel, the Canadian telecoms company....
...It has effectively put him above the law, able to keep any information from anybody if it suits his purposes,” says Michael Gerhardt, a constitutional law professor at the University of North Carolina....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...(FT, Quartz) North Carolina election rerun President Donald Trump is betting that his political brand will help Republicans keep hold of a North Carolina US House seat in a special election on Tuesday....
...“Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not. In Wisconsin, considerable effort was expended to woo Foxconn — a Taiwan-based company which makes, among other things, roughly half of the world’s iPhones....
...Around 80 per cent of the seats in the US’s 99 state legislative chambers are up for election too. In addition, Americans will be choosing city councillors, school board members and judges....
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...(TPM) Campaign commentary It is time to panic over the polls (Jonathan Chait, NYMag) Why Trump shouldn’t be president (NYT editorial board) The minivan v the Maserati (Nicole Wallace, NYT) Clinton’s...
...that “the Obama administration was actively supporting al-Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State”....
...Maureen Dowd of the New York Times flew all the way to North Carolina to wring a recantation out of the charismatic Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley, who had once praised Melania’s “impeccable...
...A witty board book that’s perfect for inquisitive preliterate kids....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...The Texas politician received donations from almost 47,000 people across every state in the US with half of the money coming from his home state....
...(Also see Ben Carson et al on black people.)...
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...Mitt Romney’s prospects in the critical swing state of Virginia were complicated after the state’s board of elections ruled that it would allow Virgil Goode, a conservative candidate who has been likened...
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