House Republican Issa Charges Obama With Lying About Tort Reform Huffington Post | President Obama's health care reform outreach to congressional Republicans got off to a bumpy start on Monday morning, when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) blasted a statement to reporters headlined: "First Question for President Obama: Did You Lie About Moving Forward on Malpractice Reform?" | It wa...
Joan Baez Joins White House's Celebration of Civil Rights Music Rollingstone | Photo: Gallup/Getty | Joan Baez has been added to “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement,” a PBS special airing this Thursday, February 11th. Baez joins a lineup that includes her partner at the 1963 March on Washington civil rights ra...
The House of Tranquillity The New York Times | During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and Joe Biden had a Felix and Oscar air about them. Obama was disciplined and professorial while Biden was tactile and approachable. Biden would make an off-color joke, while Obama would put on a conte...
The Art-House Maven Wall Street Journal By KRISTIN M. JONES | New York | In 1970, The New Yorker covered a new alternative theater in a walk-up loft space on West 88th Street, describing its charming sideburned host, imaginative programming, 16mm projector and "snappy" folding chairs. That...
Democrats gather to tap Fox as new House speaker The Providence Journal | PROVIDENCE - While he is not pulling out of the race to succeed William J. Murphy as House speaker, Rep. Gregory Schadone has acknowledged that he does not have the votes to win if the vote is called, as expected, this week. | "No one suspected thi...
Slow and steady growth in house prices to continue Business Report | By Roy Cokayne | Submit your comment | House prices are continuing to improve. Absa Home Loans yesterday reported that the upward trend in nominal house price growth, which has been evident since the middle of last year, continued last month...
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UAE investment house sells 13 % in SpiceJet The Hindu | NEW DELHI: The UAE-based investment house Istithmar PJSC has sold most of its entire 13.39 per cent holding worth Rs. 169 crore in no-frill carrier SpiceJet to domestic funds and...
Continuation of House panel to be studied: Rosaiah The Hindu | House committee had been constituted to study Telangana issue at the instance of YSR | "Cabinet expansion at appropriate time and if there is a need for it" | IPL matches will be...
German NGO builds houses for tsunami-hit The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Cost of each unit put at Rs.1.10 lakh | 49 more houses under construction | SECURE DWELLING: Houses constructed for tsunami victims by KNH-Navajeevan NGOs in Kotha Pattapupalem village in Nellore district. | NELLORE: Five years aft...
Speed up Indiramma housing, officials told The Hindu | Special Correspondent | Dharmana reviews implementation of the scheme | SRIKAKULAM: Revenue Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao on Monday said that a beneficiary of housing programme who had grounded the unit would have to complete the same under any cir...
House site pattas distributed The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Tuticorin: The DMK-led government is according priority to enhance the social security for people in the long run, according to the Minister for Social Welfare, P. Geetha Jeevan,. | She was distributing free house site pattas to ts...
Houses for poor in the city, at last The Hindu | Special Correspondent | A road map to complete 44,000 houses in three phases planned | Beneficiaries' lists to be placed on website of A.P. State Housing Corporation Limited | About 16,922 houses to be completed by March 31, 14,902 by July 31 and 12,551 by Jan. 1, 2011 | HYDERABAD: Identified beneficiaries for houses being constructed in the Hyde...
