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		<title><![CDATA[Ackman's Target Nominees Could Execute His Plans Expertly]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SEC filing quotes Ackman as saying that Pershing Square â€œhas had no previous business relationships with these nominees.â€ However, itâ€™s hard to believe that he doesnâ€™t know where they stand in relation to his Target plans. by Mike Duff]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[CREW Files FEC Complaint Against Gov. Palin and RNC for Violating Campaign Finance Law by Purchasing $150,000 Wardrobe for VP Nominee and Family]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW filed a Federal Election Commission FEC complaint against vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the Republican National Committee RNC and several other political operatives associated with the RNC, for improperly spending $150,000 on clothing for Palin and her family, in...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Awards for Supply Management Excellence to Be Presented at Aberdeen Group&#39;s Chief Procurement Officer&#39;s Summit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), will reveal the winners of its industry achievement awards in global supply management at its 4th annual Chief Procurement Officer's CPO Summit on November 13-14, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Aberdeen will present five companies with Global Supply Management Achievement Awards for excellence...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Awards for Manufacturing Excellence to Be Presented at Aberdeen&#39;s Annual Manufacturing Summit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), will reveal the winners of its industry achievement awards in manufacturing at its annual Manufacturing Executive Summit on November 4-5, 2008 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, MA. Aberdeen will present five companies with Manufacturing Achievement Awards for excellence demonstrated in 5 specific...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vishay Sets the Record Straight]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urges International Rectifier Stockholders to Vote FOR Experienced and Independent Director Nominees on the BLUE Proxy Card  MALVERN, Pa. -- Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today issued the following statement regarding the upcoming election of directors at International Rectifier Corporation's (NYSE: IRF) delayed 2007 Annual Meeting, scheduled to be...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[RiskMetrics  Recommends International Rectifier Stockholders Vote for Vishay's Three Independent Director Nominees on the Blue Proxy Card]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MALVERN, Pa. -- Vishay Intertechnology (NYSE: VSH) today announced that RiskMetrics Group (formerly Institutional Shareholder Services or "ISS") recommends that stockholders of International Rectifier Corporation (NYSE: IRF) vote FOR the election of Vishay's three highly-qualified and independent director nominees - Ronald M. Ruzic, William T. Vinson and Professor Yoram Jerry...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vishay Mails Letter to International Rectifier Stockholders]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urges International Rectifier Stockholders to Vote the BLUE Proxy Card Today  FOR Vishay's Independent Director Nominees and Bylaw Amendment Proposals  MALVERN, Pa. -- Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today mailed the following letter to the stockholders of International Rectifier (NYSE: IRF):  October 2, 2008  Dear International...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON -- MFS Intermediate Income Trust, a closed-end fund (NYSE: MIN) announced today that ISS Governance Services, a division of RiskMetrics Group and a leading independent proxy advisory firm, has recommended that shareholders vote for the Fund's slate of trustees rather than the nominees recommended by dissident shareholder Karpus Management,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama to give global &#39;madmen&#39; benefit of doubt : Huckabee]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP &#8212; Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that Democratic nominee Barack Obama would give global "madmen" the benefit of the doubt if he is elected president.  The former Arkansas governor lashed out at Obama in an apparent jibe at the Illinois senator's offer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP &#8212; A subdued Republican convention opened, blown off course by Hurricane Gustav and revelations that the teenage daughter of vice presidential pick Sarah Palin is pregnant.  With the nation preoccupied by the hurricane hammering Louisiana three years after the catastrophe wrought by Katrina, the Republicans...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reformer joins race for the White House; McCain's partner is Alaskan governor]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: By WESLEY JOHNSON News Correspondent  REPUBLICAN presidential hopeful John McCain named the youngest and first female governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his running mate.  In an election which will be about change, so-called "hockeymum"Ms Palin is virtually unknown outside Alaska, where she has a reputation for...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; John Kerry reported for duty four years after his mauling by Republicans on Wednesday to settle a string of unpaid scores with a withering attack on Senator John McCain.  Had the 2004 nominee shown such fight during his own race, he might have been in...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clinton entrusts his legacy to Obama]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; Bill Clinton has entrusted his presidential legacy to the keeping of Barack Obama, finally admitting the Democratic nominee into his band of believers "in a place called Hope."  After wife Hillary's stinging Democratic primary defeat left him feuding with chunks of his own party, Clinton's...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[America stands at &#39;defining moment&#39; : Obama]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; Barack Obama will Thursday tell Americans their country faces a "defining moment" at home and vow to keep them safe from foreign threats in a dazzling finale to the Democratic convention.  In excerpts from his speech accepting the party's historic nomination, Obama also was to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Democrats name Obama first black major US party nominee]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28051726]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday made history as Democrats formally nominated him by acclamation as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party.  Obama's defeated rival Hillary Clinton dramatically halted a roll-call vote at the Democratic National Convention and proposed the Illinois senator be...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Democrats name Obama first black major US party nominee]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; Democrat Barack Obama Wednesday made history as Democrats formally nominated him by acclamation as the first black presidential nominee of a major political party.  Obama's defeated rival Hillary Clinton dramatically halted a roll-call vote at the Democratic National Convention and proposed the Illinois senator be...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Democrats make history, and Obama the nominee]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28051731]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; In a deafening moment of history, Democrats made Barack Obama the first black major-party nominee for president, as they rode a delirious outpouring of unity, hope and tears.  Obama took his stunning political rise to new heights as his primary foe Hillary Clinton dramatically halted...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Democrats usher Obama into history]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28051754]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; In a deafening moment of history, Democrats anointed Barack Obama the first black major-party nominee for president, in a cathartic release of unity, hope and tears.  The newly-minted nominee then sent the Democratic National Convention into raptures by crashing his own party a day early,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Crew has rowed in presidential waters before]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200808/ai_n28033238]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO --The political team behind Barack Obama's meteoric rise from rookie senator to presidential nominee was trained by three lawmakers whose own White House ambitions fell short.     Among them:     *Campaign manager David Plouffe, who once worked for Dick Gephardt, a Missouri congressman...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Clinton tells Democrats to unite behind Obama]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200808/ai_n28034090]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Colorado AFP &#8212; Hillary Clinton ordered her grieving supporters Tuesday to unite behind Democratic nominee Barack Obama, in an emotional final act to a White House quest which fell just short of history.  "Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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