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With a Republican Party that loses elections as gracefully as Willkie and loses wars as pre-emptively as Chamberlain, America will forget the Bush presidency ever happened. ... 1:54 P.M. (link) Thursday, May 3, 2007 Animal Farm: As if the GOP needed any more bad omens, this week the Philadelphia Zoo became the latest to join a national trend—giving up on elephants. Now the press can start looking for the next sign of the Republican apocalypse: gun owners turning in their pickup trucks and riding donkeys to work. Perhaps because zoos represent the world the way man would have made it, they have long been a leading political indicator. In retrospect, China's seemingly innocent gift of pandas to the United States three decades ago should have been an obvious warning of its desire for global economic hegemony.
MasterCard Announces Organizational Realignment
PURCHASE, N.Y., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) today announced an organizational realignment designed to improve performance in the marketplace by broadening executive responsibilities, hiring a new senior executive and beginning the transition process for the retirement of its Chief Operating Officer, Alan J. Heuer, at the end of 2008. Heuer has been appointed to the Office of the CEO where he will hold the newly created position of Vice Chairman, and will continue to report to MasterCard President and Chief Executive Officer Robert W. Selander. Also assuming new responsibilities will be: These executives report to the Office of the CEO. W. Roy Dunbar, President, Global Technology & Operations; Noah J. Hanft, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary; and, Michael W.
Venkat's say could matter in the end
Now it has boiled down to a two-horse race for the hottest seat in Indian cricket. Interestingly, the contenders - John Emburey and Graham Ford - were not even the dark horses when the name of Daveneil Whatmore did the rounds. Of the two, Emburey has a distinct edge over Ford, going by his credibility as a player. Two things you instantly associate with the tall off-spinner, in Indian soil. First was the time when he caught the jaywalking Krish Srikkanth napping with a sharp throw from the slips in the '81 Mumbai Test. At the same venue, he plucked an out-of-the-world catch off his own bowling to send back Kiran More in the '87 World Cup semifinal. Mere statistics will reflect the class apart in the merits.
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