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Simon Tisdall: Clinton job would break the Obama spell

If Hillary Clinton is confirmed as Barack Obama's choice as secretary of state, Democrats and independents who backed the former First Lady in the primaries will applaud loudly. Women's groups will raise a cheer. Hubby Bill...

Wal-Mart pulls further ahead of its US rivals

Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, said its Supercenters and discount stores accounted for more than half of all US retail growth in October, underlining the growing ascendancy of the low-cost retailer in a bleak retail landscape.

Michael Billington on what TS Eliot's complex plays did for the theatre

Is there a dramatist currently less fashionable than TS Eliot? The verse-drama revival he so ardently championed bit the dust. His high Anglicanism is now a minority taste. Even the drawing-room settings he used as a spiritual...

Dems give Lieberman wrist slap over backing McCain

Senate Democrats decided not to take revenge on Joe Lieberman despite lingering anger over the Connecticut independent's forceful support of John McCain over Barack Obama in the presidential campaign.

Obama team canvasses senators on top attorney general pick

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first...

Lawmakers choose GOP, Dem leaders for '09

Closed-door sessions sets the stage for the 111th Congress Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and their dogs Sunny and Splash, arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday. The next Congress took...

This is your 'informed citizenry' which elected Obama

From a Zogby poll: 512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points 97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party...

NBA: Indiana 113, Atlanta 96

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Danny Granger scored 34 points Tuesday to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 113-96 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Granger hit 13-of-18 from the field. Rasho Nesterovic had 21 points and Troy Murphy 10...

With Cuban watching, Mavericks rout Bobcats 100-83

Dirk Nowitzki scored 32 points, Josh Howard added 21 and the Dallas Mavericks never trailed in a 100-83 rout of the Charlotte Bobcats on Tuesday night, delighting owner Mark Cuban a day after he was charged with insider trading.

Beau Biden says he won't replacing his dad in Senate any time soon

"I will be fulfilling my military orders," Beau Biden, son of Vice President-elect Joe Biden, tells The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., in an e-mail. "I have not sought and will not accept an appointment to the United States...

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