Influential New Hampshire newspaper backs Gingrich
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New Hampshire’s largest newspaper endorsed Newt Gingrich in the Republican presidential race on Sunday, giving the former House speaker a boost in a state where Mitt Romney has been expected to excel.
The endorsement validates Gingrich’s recent rise as a candidate — months after many political pundits thought his campaign was as good as over following a series of missteps — and is a blow to Romney’s aspirations.
Will Penn State be pariah in postseason football?
BOSTON (Reuters) – Penn State’s football team will end a winning season this weekend but the university’s sex abuse scandal could make the Nittany Lions a pariah at the postseason college football bowl party.
With nine wins and only two losses going into the final game of the season against Wisconsin, Penn State would be poised in a normal year for an invitation to a lucrative, high-profile bowl game.
Will Penn State be pariah at postseason football party?
BOSTON (Reuters) – Penn State’s football team will end a winning season this weekend but the university’s sex abuse scandal could yet make the Nittany Lions a pariah at the postseason college football bowl party.
With nine wins and only two losses going into the final game of the season against Wisconsin, and with legions of fans traditionally eager to travel to a warm spot to celebrate the New Year, Penn State would be poised in a normal year for a plumb invitation.
Romney to attack Obama in first New Hampshire ad
BOSTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will kick off his television advertising campaign in New Hampshire on Tuesday with a spot attacking President Barack Obama on the day Obama visits the early primary state.
Romney discussed the campaign’s first paid television commercial ad in an interview to be broadcast on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” show on Monday. A transcript was made available in advance.
Gingrich fascinated by Romney computer wipe
Republican Newt Gingrich had not heard of a controversy surrounding some of the final actions of rival Mitt Romney’s staff when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, but suggested the ploy might even turn up in one of his books in the future.
The Boston Globe reported this week that when Romney was leaving the statehouse in 2006 after one term as governor, eleven of his staff were allowed to use their own money to purchase their work computers’ hard drives, and the Romney administration’s emails were all wiped from a server.
Gingrich says fast rise in polls “almost disorienting”
BOSTON (Reuters) – Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said on Friday that his recent sharp rise in opinion polls as the first 2012 primary contests approach has been “almost disorienting.”
At an appearance at Harvard University, Gingrich promised “extraordinarily radical proposals” if elected president, such as having inner city children work as janitors in their schools.
Herman Cain promises more “Powerful Pauses”
White House hopeful Herman Cain defended his now infamous “Milwaukee pause” while stumping in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday, and even termed a new phrase putting a positive spin on his apparent gaffe.
Earlier this week Cain stumbled in an interview at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, pausing at length when asked a question about U.S. policy in Libya.
U.S. consumer group flags 10 most dangerous toys
BOSTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) – A Power Rangers “samurai mega
blade” and a Godzilla figure with dagger-like attachments are
some of the most dangerous toys lurking in stores this holiday
season, according to a consumer watchdog group.
Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH) on
Wednesday issued its annual list of the 10 worst children’s
toys, just in time for the shopping frenzy that typically
starts in late November.
Consumer group flags most dangerous toys
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Power Rangers “samurai mega blade” and a Godzilla figure with dagger-like attachments are some of the most dangerous toys lurking in stores this holiday season, according to a consumer watchdog group.
Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH) on Wednesday issued its annual list of the 10 worst children’s toys, just in time for the shopping frenzy that typically starts in late November.
Fed’s Rosengren says fuller action needed on economy
BOSTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve policies alone cannot restore full employment in the United States and need back-up on the fiscal side and support from greater global stability, a top Fed policy-maker said on Wednesday.
Fiscal problems “have increasingly limited the response we would normally expect in a severe economic downturn and a painfully slow recovery,” Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in remarks prepared for a speech to the Boston Economic Club.
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