This could be problematic. I've been fairly sanguine about Obama's re-election chances, but no incumbent has been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 7.2% since FDR (and the 7.2% belonged to Reagan). It's currently around 9%, and could possibly increase with tomorrow's data. It will...
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It appears that Sepp Blatter's cunning ploy succeeded. Mohamed Bin Hammam has pulled out of the race to serve as FIFA President, leaving the field about as competitive as a.
As Rob wrote on Wednesday, Britain and France are deploying attack helicopters to support the mission in Libya. Last night, Radio 4 reported that the British contribution is four Apaches.
Chuck Blazer weighs in. I still believe that this is an admittedly risky tactic that Blatter is using to ensure his reelection, and once that's secured normal business will resume (FIFA is not corrupt! How dare you imply otherwise!) but there remains an outside chance...
In my department I am something of an all-rounder: a lot of what I teach is outside my official areas of expertise, at times chilling out in the Oort cloud.
Ryan Giggs v 75,000 Twitter users; Lib Dem MP comes to the rescue confirming what we already knew. The use of the "injunction" or "super-injunction" is fairly common in the.
This hasn't really been picked up by the media, but according to Prost Amerika Soccer, FIFA is entertaining the possibility of overturning Qatar's sensible victory in hosting the 2022 World Cup. Slightly more here at The Guardian. Of course, refusing to rule out a re-vote...
While there was a wedding of some apparent note yesterday on the island where I work and usually live, more interesting are the series of elections on May 5. These.
Pierre Celis, who died yesterday, is something of a legend in the beer world. The basic story is that he unilaterally resurrected the style of Belgian Witbier back in the.
The Democrats signed off on this as part of their vaunted compromise rolling over and playing dead? The following is buried at the end of the NYT story linked above: District of Columbia officials expressed outrage on Saturday about two provisions of the budget deal...
I'm sitting in an airport bar waiting to board my PDX-ORD flight, with an outside shot at an upgrade. I'm off to Chicago to present a paper, co-authored with my.
I'm sitting in the Star Alliance lounge in Terminal 1, awaiting the beginning of my LHR-SFO-PDX journey, having been awake since 0400 (to catch the 4.5 hour bus journey from.