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Poll finds views of race relations little changed despite Obama Campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's status as the first black presidential candidate of a major political party has not influenced the perception of race relations in this country, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Majorities of both whites and blacks agree the country is ready for a black president, but the consensus seems to ends there.
The perceptions of Illinois Sen. Obama and his Republican challenger, Arizona Sen. John McCain, break along racial lines. The survey found that more than 80 percent of blacks said they had a favorable opinion of Obama, whose historic effo... |
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New US Postage Stamps Honor Early Black Cinema
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
WASHINGTON (AP) - Josephine Baker looks straight at you with bright eyes and shining smile, fearless and demanding attention.
The time is 1935, and the St. Louis native who transfixed France and much of Europe with song and dance stares out from a poster advertising the film “Princess Tam-Tam.” Baker starred as a simple African woman presented to Paris society as royalty.
Baker's movie is one of five recalled on a set of U.S. postage stamps being released Wednesday to honor vintage black cinema. Ceremonies marking the sale of the stamps will be held at th... |
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Candidates Court Hispanics, Obama Denies Pandering to Centrist
By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama courted Hispanics _ who could tip the balance in several key battleground states in the November election _ promising to right the troubled U.S. economy and restore new immigrants' hopes of sharing in the dream of a better life through hard work.
Obama, fighting back against a Republican Party television ad that questions his ability to solve the United States' energy woes, on Tuesday launched his first negative commercial of the campaign, declaring McCain was ``part of the problem... |
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CIA Minority Hiring
LANGLEY, Va. — More than one in four recruits offered jobs as undercover spies by the CIA this year are members of racial or ethnic minorities — a record high percentage, the agency's top spy says.
But the CIA continues to lag in fielding spies from the Middle Eastern and South Asian backgrounds deemed most critical to the war on terrorism, said Jose Rodriguez, the outgoing director of clandestine intelligence gathering, in an interview with USA TODAY. Only about 5% of the agency's current undercover spy force is from an Asian background.
HOW SPIES ARE TRAINED: Changes eyed in re... |
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The Easy Way To Find The Right Sales Jobs
By Rama Krishna, http://www.salescareersonline.com/
Rama Krishna
Search Expert and content writer with profeciency in writing articles and blog posts in various topics...
Do you think you are a non stop vending machine that can’t stop selling no matter what? Do you feel as if you have been molded perfectly for sales? Well, then a sales job is the perfect thing for you.
‘Sales’ is one of the channels of business that will continue to exist as long as businesses do. It will never go extinct. It might just switch modes but the need for the salesman will always be constant.
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