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Quick Hits: Tracking Obama's Promises
In advance of the President’s State of the Union, The Washington Post has selected a few of the promises Obama made during the campaign and checks up on their status two years later. What are your expectations for tomorrow night’s address? Party line or a strong stance?
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Who *Doesn't* Get a Maybach for Their Sixteenth Birthday?
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs saw fit to drop 350 large on his son’s sixteenth birthday. That’s not the price of the party; that’s the price tag on the Maybach Mercedes-Benz, which came with its own driver since the son in question cannot drive. Some, like Zerlina over at Urban Politico are less-than-thrilled I’m so glad Diddy…
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Read/React: "Democrats, Get Down to Business"
Harold Ford Jr. wrote an op/ed for The New York Times in the wake of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. SCOTT BROWN’S victory last week in the Massachusetts Senate race, following the Republican gubernatorial triumphs in New Jersey and Virginia, marked the third time in three months that the Democratic Party has lost the support…
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David Plouffe Returns
As you may or may not have heard, President Barack Obama’s first year in office has had its ups and downs. To turn more of those downs into ups, he’s brought back David Plouffe, one of the mastermind who helped him get into the White House. Plouffe’s task is different now, but Mark McKinnon of…
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And All That Jazz
It has been an extraordinarily good season for jazz books. Terry Teachout’s Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong and Robin Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original provide insightful biography; Jazz by Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux is an authoritative primer. Adding to the canon are three other, equally necessary books,…
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U.S. Navy Names Ship for Charles R. Drew
From Howard University: Dr. Charles Drew, the former chair of the Department of Surgery at Howard University College of Medicine who saved an untold number of lives through his pioneering work with blood, is being honored by the U.S. Navy with a ship. Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter recently announced that a 689-foot, 42,000-ton…
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The Art of Turning $25 Million Into $560 Million
How did a completely bankrupt satellite communications company—that now provides data and voice services to customers worldwide, including relief agencies in earthquake-torn Haiti—become a powerhouse with a market value of $560 million? Syncom Venture Partners came to its rescue, and set a better course. The easy part occurred when the Maryland venture capital firm, which…
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The Curse on Haiti
According to Pat Robertson, when the Haitian slaves were battling the French for their freedom, they “swore a pact to the devil. They said ‘we will serve you if you will get us free from the French’… so the devil said ‘OK, it’s a deal,’ and they kicked the French out. The Haitians revolted and…