E-reader News Edition 05/01/10 - 06/01/10 http://www.LibertyNewsprint.com Washington chatter: who loses job over security scares? By Tabassum Zakaria (Front Both are still in their jobs and brouhaha (reminder it’s an Row Washington) not seeing any smoke signals election year) someone usually Submitted at 1/5/2010 1:14:47 PM about change. decides to step down for family There was certainly smoke on reasons or to pursue other It’s the question ricocheting Christmas Day when a Nigerian opportunities several months around Washington: which passenger tried to bring down a after the fact. official gets to step down for Detroit-bound airplane by Sally Quinn, in a column in The family reasons or to pursue other igniting an explosive substance in Washington Post titled “time for opportunities after recent security his underwear. And now the accountability at the White scares? maze of intelligence agencies is House,” says if the President’s There was White House crasher- trying to explain to the president People don’t take the fall, then he gate — the Salahis who sashayed why the suspect wasn’t on the ends up bearing the brunt of into President Barack Obama’s terrorism no-fly list when his public blame. first formal state dinner bedecked own father tried to warn the U.S. Would it politically in red sari and tuxedo but Embassy of his son’s radicalism. benefit/hurt/have no impact on missing one key item — an In a “not connecting the dots” Obama if one of the officials invitation. problem it is usually difficult to bowed out? Who should it be? Secret Service Director Mark lay blame at any single agency’s For more U.S. political news Sullivan fell on his sword before feet because bits and pieces of House line at the moment is that briefing: “And there’s been no click here Congress and shouldered the information were floating in the president has full confidence sounding out of people outside Photo credit: Reuters/Yuri blame. White House social various hands and were not in the Director of National the administration to wait in the Gripas (Obama at White House secretary Desiree Rogers was joined together to provide a Intelligence, the CIA Director, wings for a possible shakeup?” in late December), shielded from a public clearer picture. and the Secretary of Homeland Answer from White House Reuters/Yuriko Nakao (artist appearance on Capitol Hill by the So will there be a shake-up after Security. spokesman Robert Gibbs: “No.” illumination polka-dot pattern on White House. the reports are in? The White Question at White House press Traditionally when there is a big pavement in Yokohama in 2007) CENTURY-21 of China Shoots for an IPO By Tom Taulli The name of the company is fact, this is one of the first filings BloggingStocks on Wed, 06 Jan (BloggingStocks) fairly ordinary: IFM Investments in 2010. 2010 15:40:00 EST. Please see Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:40:00 PM Limited. Yet, it is the exclusive Continue reading CENTURY-21 our terms for use of feeds. franchisor of the CENTURY 21 of China Shoots for an IPO Permalink| Email this| Comments Filed under: China, Initial public brand in China (since 2000). CENTURY-21 of China Shoots offerings And to capitalize on the growth, IFM has filed to go public. In for an IPO originally appeared on 2 Top News/ Business/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition Obama admits security “screw up,” Blackstone Checks-In a but some wonder who’ll pay Deal for Highland By David Morgan (Front Row Washington) Hospitality Submitted at 1/6/2010 6:49:16 AM By Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks) President Barack Obama may have hoped to limit the political Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:40:00 PM fallout from last month’s attempted bombing of a Detroit- Filed under: Private equity, bound airliner by admitting there Blackstone Group L.P (BX) The was a“screw up.” Will firings Blackstone Group ( BX) is one of follow? Some think Obama’s the world's largest private equity unusually sharp rhetoric raises real estate investors, with a This was done by making a the odds that heads will roll. global portfolio of $23.7 billion. clever purchase of outstanding One such observer is U.S. Rep. The firm also has extensive hotel debt from Wachovia. Peter King, an influential New holdings. Some of the brands Continue reading Blackstone York Republican. include Hilton, La Quinta, Checks-In a Deal for Highland “If the situation is as bad as the Waldorf-Astoria, Boca Raton Hospitality president says it was, as far as so the ax could fall on anybody at other challenges, including the Resort & Club and the Trianon Blackstone Checks-In a Deal for many dots not being connected, the top of the U.S. national impending retirements of Senate Palace Versailles. Highland Hospitality originally so many obvious mistakes being security leadership: the secretary stalwarts Christopher Dodd and In fact, as financing warms up -- appeared on BloggingStocks on made … I would think once the of homeland security; the Byron Dorgan. Their and valuations remain attractive - Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:40:00 EST. president set that stage, that to directors of national intelligence, departures could pose a direct - Blackstone is starting the year Please see our terms for use of show that he’s serious, someone CIA, NSA, NCTC; or various security threat to the fragile 60- by boosting its holdings. feeds. Permalink| Email this| will have to go now,” King told White House advisers. member Senate coalition that According to a report in the Wall Comments ABC’s Good Morning America. Whatever happens on the firing Democrats need to push through Street Journal(subscription But the top Republican on the front, Obama won’t see the real Obama’s legislative agenda required), the firm is angling to House Homeland Security political fallout until November against near-monolithic control Highland Hospitality. Committee says he can’t tell when the congressional elections Republican opposition. which official should pay decide who controls Congress in Photo Credits: Reuters/White Google's Nexus phone because the Obama 2011 and 2012 — a period that House handout (Obama and his (CNET News.com) 3 minutes 58 seconds administration hasn’t let runs straight through the next national security team); Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:36:26 AM January 6, 2010 10:36 AM PST Congress know who did (or presidential election. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque (Dodd Five Filters featured article: didn’t) do what, when. Republicans are already using and Dorgan) Google unveils the Nexus One, Chilcot Inquiry. 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This eased his Wesley. made it hard for him to get bicycle chain chewed up the reception into the Roman Leonard's career in the 1950s alongside his archbishop, cassock. As diocesan education Bishop of London who turned to Catholic church, and he was and 60s as curate, incumbent, eccentric, learned and wise. secretary, he raised eyebrows at Catholicism after showing strong made a monsignor. director of church schools and Leonard was urged by some of the "ministry" (as it then was) in opposition to the ordination of Leonard was brought up in his archdeacon was exemplary. He his followers to defeat the Curzon Street, central London, women father's evangelical parish and at was energetic, efficient, caring ecumenism of the archbishop, by appearing in a black, Spanish- Monsignor Graham Leonard, Monkton Combe, Somerset, a and prepared to face down the casting Leonard in the role of style, broad-brimmed priest's hat. successively bishop of Willesden, school which then emphasised "Sir Humphreys" in Whitehall, "Athanasius contra mundum". To In Truro (1973-81), full of firm Truro and London, who has died individual conscience, a literal among the church commissioners be Catholic in their eyes was to Methodists and Atlantic storms, aged 88, was third in the Church interpretation of the Bible and and in the town halls. He was take no risks in befriending he might appear at an ordination of England hierarchy and one of male leadership in the church. At assiduous in visiting and Protestants and to adopt a attired in mitre, ceremonial its leading bishops. He evoked Oxford, like his wife, Priscilla, publishing devotional books, narrowly defensive stance. gloves and gremial (a silk apron- strong support in many parishes whom he married in 1943, urging frequent communion. He Many Anglo-Catholics who like covering for the lap of and among Anglo-Catholic Leonard read botany. He served used to say, "you don't kiss your were hoping for rapid reunion bishops). He was deeply clergy, and was widely in the forces from 1941 to 1945.