Obama's interlocking directorate Jewish World Review Thu, 28 May 2009 17:14 PM PDT http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The interlocking directorate is anathema to trustbusters and corporate watchdogs. It occurs when a board member or top executive of one company sits on the board of another company, accumulating undue power over a given industry. | Obama eyes classified info policy The World Thu, 28 May 2009 17:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) - Expanding his drive to open government, President Barack Obama is ordering two studies of whether the government is classifying too much information and using too many different ways to keep it from public view. | The Norks are encouraged by Obama. There's no wonder why Jewish World Review Thu, 28 May 2009 17:13 PM PDT http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | On Memorial Day, North Korea â" evidently successfully this time â" tested a nuclear weapon. President Obama issued a statement describing this as "a matter of grave concern to all nations," and then went off to play a round of golf. | An appeal to survival ethics Jewish World Review Thu, 28 May 2009 17:13 PM PDT http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Washington is a company town, and what the company makes best is politics and policy. Sometimes the politics is "unprecedented," as certain historians called the duel between President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney. | A limp legacy of the weak and wet Jewish World Review Thu, 28 May 2009 17:13 PM PDT http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Barack Obama's legacy is coming sharply into focus, four years early. He's out to transform "a nation of laws," once the pride of our Anglo-Saxon heritage and examplar to the world, into "a nation of feelings." | Abbas urges end to Israeli settlements Irish Examiner Thu, 28 May 2009 17:12 PM PDT PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has met with US president Barack Obama urging stronger US pressure on Israel to halt settlement building even as the Jewish state rebuffed Washingtonâs latest appeal. | One of Obama's favorite restaurants losing lease Chicago Tribune Thu, 28 May 2009 17:11 PM PDT Despite a fan in the White House, the Dixie Kitchen & Bait Shop is losing its lease after 15 years as its landlord, the University of Chicago, fishes for developers The Hyde Park neighborhood may be enjoying a renaissance with new development and a local guy in the White House, but not even a rave review by that man-who-would-be-president could save one of its most popular restaurants. | UPDATE: Obama Meets Abbas; Upgrades Pressure On Israel Nasdaq Thu, 28 May 2009 17:11 PM PDT (Recasts to update with more details, quotes.) WASHINGTON (AFP)--U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday renewed pressure on Israel but rejected a timetable for his peace drive, noting domestic pressures heaped on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | Gov't halts forest road-building for 1 year Summit Daily News Thu, 28 May 2009 17:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is calling for a one-year moratorium on road-building and development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests. | | |
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