Greek conservatives win, head into coalition talks

ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Fears of an imminent Greek exit from Europe's joint currency receded Sunday after the conservative New Democracy party came first in a critical election and pro-bailout parties won enough seats to form a joint government.

As central banks stood ready to intervene in case of financial turmoil, Greece held its second national election in six weeks after an inconclusive ballot on May 6 and the subsequent collapse of coalition talks.

With one party advocating ripping up Greece's multibillion-euro bailout deal, Sunday's election was seen as a vote on whether Greece should stay in the 17-nation group sharing the euro currency. A Greek exit would have had potentially catastrophic consequences for other ailing European nations, the United States and the entire global economy.

Near complete results showed New Democracy coming first with 29.6 percent of the vote and 129 of the 300 seats in Parliament. The radical left anti-bailout Syriza party had 26.9 percent and 71 seats and the pro-bailout Socialist PASOK party came in third with 12.3 percent of the vote and 33 seats. The extremist far-right Golden Dawn party had steady support, getting 6.9 percent of the vote and 18 seats.

Sunday's results "will probably ease fears of an imminent Greek euro exit," said Martin Koehring of the Economist Intelligence Unit. "There will probably be a relief rally tomorrow in the financial markets. But the key question is how quickly can a government be formed?"

Stock analysts, however, warned that any bounce for financial markets could be short-lived.

"Treat knee-jerk market rallies with caution," Neil MacKinnon, a global macro strategist at VTB Capital, advised clients, saying there was still too many questions about Europe's debt crisis to celebrate the Greek vote.

The United States welcomed the result. "We hope this election will lead quickly to the formation of a new government that can make timely progress on the economic challenges facing the Greek people," the White House said in a statement.

Greece's parties have starkly different views about what to do about the ?240 billion ($300 billion) in bailout loans that Greece has been given by other European countries and the International Monetary Fund, and the harsh austerity measures that previous Greek governments had to accept in return for the loans.

With none winning an outright majority, the parties will have to seek coalition partners to form a viable government, needing a simple majority of at least 151 seats. New Democracy will get the first stab at brokering a partnership on Monday.

Negotiations could be tough. PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, who spent months negotiating bailouts as Greece's finance minister, has suggested dumping the usual procedure of each party seeking coalition partners. He said a government must be formed quickly and suggested a four-party coalition between New Democracy, Syriza, PASOK and the small Democratic Left, which was in sixth place with 6.3 percent of the vote and 17 seats.

"There is not one day to lose. There is no room for party games. If we want Greece to really remain in the euro and get out of the crisis to the benefit of every Greek family, it must have a government tomorrow," Venizelos said.

PASOK officials said Venizelos would insist on Syriza joining any future coalition, despite its anti-bailout stance ? although the move could simply be a negotiating tactic to convince the public that Syriza was unwilling to play a constructive role in pulling Greece out of its crisis.

But Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, a 37-year-old former student activist, has ruled out such a possibility.

Tsipras phoned New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras Sunday night to congratulate him on his victory and vowed that his party would remain outside the government.

"We will be present in these developments from the position of the main opposition," he said in a speech to cheering party supporters in Athens.

Samaras cast Sunday's choice as one between keeping the euro and returning to Greece's old currency, the drachma. He has vowed to renegotiate some of the bailout's harsher terms but insists the top priority is for the country to remain in Europe's joint currency.

"The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone," Samaras said.

Tsipras, who had tapped into a vein of deep anger over the plunging living standards faced by many Greeks, had wanted to rip up Greece's bailout deals and roll back many of the new taxes and job and pension cuts imposed in the last two years.

Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called New Democracy's victory a decision to "forge ahead" with implementing far-reaching reforms. Germany's foreign minister said it was important for Greece to stick to its agreements with creditors, but held out the prospect that Athens might be given more time to comply with them.

Germany ? Europe's biggest economy ? has been a major contributor to Greece's two multibillion-euro rescue packages and a key advocate of demanding tough, and highly unpopular, austerity and reform measures in exchange.

How much tolerance Greece's international lenders will show will be key to future developments, Koehring said.

"The New Democracy party has already said they want to renegotiate the bailout. The big question is how much cooperation can they expect from the EU and the IMF?" he asked. "We think they will probably be able to extend the terms."

Greece has been dependent on rescue loans to operate since May 2010, after it was locked out of international markets following years of profligate spending and falsifying financial data. The country is mired in a fifth year of recession, with unemployment spiraling above 22 percent and tens of thousands of businesses shutting down.

Greece had to agree to austerity measures to get the loans, including deep spending cuts on everything from health care to education and infrastructure, as well as tax hikes and cuts in salaries and pensions. Anger at the measures has sent Greeks into the streets in frequent strikes and protests, some of them violent.

The vote Sunday went smoothly except for one incident in which 10 men attacked a polling station in Athens with sledgehammers and wooden bats, wounding two policemen and setting fire to the ballot box.

Virtually unknown outside of Greece four months ago, Tsipras and his party shot to prominence in the May 6 vote, where he came in a surprise second. But his anti-bailout pledges horrified European leaders as well as many Greeks.

Experts said his proposals would lead to Greece getting tossed out of the eurozone and immediate, severe economic hardship at home for years.

It's still not clear that Greece can stay in the eurozone. Some prominent economists such as Nouriel Roubini of New York University's Stern School of Business believe that Greece must leave eventually to avoid a disaster for the rest of the eurozone.

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Menelaos Hadjicostis and AP television in Athens, Paul Wiseman in Washington and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.

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Meloni: My 'True Blood' vampire is a big baby

By Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter

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Christopher Meloni stars as vampire Roman on "True Blood."

After playing detective Elliot Stabler on "Law and Order: SVU" for more than a decade, Christopher Meloni has hung up his detective badge and replaced it with a set of vampire fangs.

The Emmy-nominated actor joins HBO?s?"True Blood" this season as Roman, a powerful, 500-year-old vampire who sits at the head of the table of the Vampire Authority. Roman?s main mission is to get his blood-drinking brethren to cohabitate peacefully with humans.

Meloni, who will make his first appearance on the show in season 5?s second episode (airing June 17), tells The Hollywood Reporter that Roman?s driving force is ?the rightness of his cause.?

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?His unbending drive to get what he wants,? says Meloni, who spoke to THR from the set of the upcoming Jackie Robinson biopic, "42," in which he plays Brooklyn Dodger manager Leo Durocher. ?I think on the outside if you?re with him, you agree and you want to follow someone like that. If you disagree, then you think he?s a fanatic.?

Although Roman may be one of the older vampires in town, Meloni says his character isn?t as wise as his years.

?You know who acts like that? A child,? he says. ?And I thought that was what kind of funny about it. Here you have this very impressive entity, yet underneath it all, he?s a big old baby.?

?But don?t tell him that to his face,? he adds.

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Meloni, who in May 2011 announced that he would not return to NBC?s "Law and Order: SVU" for its 13th season, tells THR that he has always been a fan of "True Blood" showrunner Alan Ball, and enjoyed being the guest, rather than the host, of a show.

?I was now the guest after having a decade of witnessing people being guests on my show,? he said. ?I got a kick out of that. It was a lot of fun to see how another set was run.?

Roman and the Vampire Authority introduce a complication to the already-complicated HBO drama. When vampire Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Bill (Stephen Moyer) kill Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck), a member of the vampire authority, they are hunted down by the vampire government. This results in Roman holding the fates?of Bill and Eric in his already-bloodstained hands.

Meloni?s first scene was one of the tougher for him to shoot, he says, because he was ?trying on this new person, this new thing.?

?You can do all the preparation you want, but at least I kind of find my character along the way,? he said.

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"True Blood" is known for his supernatural drama, and it?s heavy-dose of sex scenes, which can range from slightly strange to extremely twisted. Fans of Meloni have been wondering if his character will get to do any bed hopping this season.

Meloni, who will also appear in Zack Snyder's Super Man reboot "Man of Steel," tells THR he wasn?t sure if he could reveal that particular piece of information, but did hint, ?I am in bed. With my lover.?

As always with the HBO vampire drama, hints about what could be coming up in the show were few and far between. However, Meloni, did say a scene involving a possible traitor in the Authority was some of his favorite work on the show.

?That was a lot of fun. It?s what I signed on to do,? he said.

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Rock Bottom Remainders saying goodbye to lit-rock

(AP) ? It took 20 years but the group Bruce Springsteen once praised as being almost as good as a lousy garage band is finally calling it quits.

The Rock Bottom Remainders, a contingent that has made it clear with every performance that literary giants like Amy Tan, Stephen King and Scott Turow really did make the right decision when they set aside their musical ambitions to write books, is calling it a career after two Southern California shows later this month.

"We've gotten as good as we're ever going to get," says lead guitarist and best-selling humorist Dave Barry, explaining the band's decision.

"You can't get any better," Barry continued. "Well, you actually can get a lot better. But we can't get any better. We're up to almost four chords now, and the Beatles quit at that point, I'm pretty sure."

Truth be told, the Rock Bottom Remainders were always a lot better than they gave themselves credit for. Especially for a band whose members' busy writing schedules prevented them from doing more than one or two gigs a year and who rarely had time to rehearse.

They've decided to wrap things up in part because of the death last month of the group's founder, book publicist and lead singer Kathi Goldmark. It was she who persuaded each one of them to join as she drove them around on book tours over the years.

"We sort of felt this would be a good time to end it because it just isn't going to be the same without Kathi," said Barry during a rare moment of seriousness.

The group's "Past Our Bedtime Tour" (because real musicians don't get up early like writers do) will include a public performance June 22 at LA's El Rey Theatre, followed by a private show the next day for the American Library Association's Anaheim convention.

All profits will go to charity, as has been the case with every Remainders concert since the group formed for a booksellers convention 20 years ago. They have raised an estimated $2 million since then.

"We're always stressing that we're not getting any money," said Barry, adding concert-goers would likely be very unhappy to learn they'd shelled out $40 a ticket if they thought the money was going to a band no better than one they could hear for free in their neighbor's garage.

But despite their musical limitations, the Remainders, (who take their name from the industry term for books nobody wants) have managed to share stages with an impressive list of musicians over the years. Among them, Springsteen, Warren Zevon, Judy Collins, Ronnie Spector, Al Kooper and the Byrds' Roger McGuinn.

It was Springsteen, Barry recalled, who after playing with the group told them they weren't that bad, then offered this advice: "Don't get any better or you'll be just another lousy garage band."

McGuinn, who will join them for this tour, met the band's members through writer Carl Hiaasen a dozen years ago and has played with them off and on ever since.

His assessment of them is a bit kinder.

"Now Dave will tell you that they're just a lousy band, but in fact they're pretty good," McGuinn said recently by phone as he traveled between gigs in Nashville and Tucson, Ariz.

Then he couched that, adding, "They're not as bad as they claim to be."

He has high praise for several members, including keyboardist Mitch Albom ("Tuesdays With Morrie")'' bass player Ridley Pearson ("Middle of Nowhere") and guitarist Greg Iles. The latter was actually a touring musician before he wrote his first best-seller, "Spandau Phoeniz."

Another member, James McBride, is a respected composer as well as a writer.

Tan, meanwhile, studied classical piano as a child, something that in no way seems to have prepared her for the sometimes-goth-dressing, bad-girl rock vixen that "The Joy Luck Club" author portrays onstage when she belts out the old Nancy Sinatra hit "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'."

The group's specialty is '60s rock 'n roll with a few original tunes by band members thrown in.

Still, among the most entertaining segments of a Remainders performance, Barry says, is watching Roy Blount Jr. and "Simpson's" creator Matt Groening clap out of time during an entire show while pretending to sing along with other band members. Neither, he said, will get close enough to a microphone to let the audience hear them.

"We're fun. We're not good but we're fun," Barry says, laughing. "And they do serve alcohol (at the show). This is key. For us as well as the audience."

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Do Brain Scans of Comatose Patients Reveal a Conscious State?

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Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23. The patient was only 24 years old when his life was devastated by a car accident. Alive but unresponsive, he had been languishing in what neurologists refer to as a vegetative state for five years, when Owen, a neuro-scientist then at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues at the University of Li?ge in Belgium, put him into a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine and started asking him questions.

Incredibly, he provided answers. A change in blood flow to certain parts of the man's injured brain convinced Owen that patient 23 was conscious and able to communicate. It was the first time that anyone had exchanged information with someone in a vegetative state.

Patients in these states have emerged from a coma and seem awake. Some parts of their brains function, and they may be able to grind their teeth, grimace or make random eye movements. They also have sleep?wake cycles. But they show no awareness of their surroundings, and doctors have assumed that the parts of the brain needed for cognition, perception, memory and intention are fundamentally damaged. They are usually written off as lost.

Owen's discovery, reported in 2010, caused a media furore. Medical ethicist Joseph Fins and neurologist Nicholas Schiff, both at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, called it a ?potential game changer for clinical practice?. The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, soon lured Owen away from Cambridge with Can$20 million (US$19.5 million) in funding to make the techniques more reliable, cheaper, more accurate and more portable ? all of which Owen considers essential if he is to help some of the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide in vegetative states. ?It's hard to open up a channel of communication with a patient and then not be able to follow up immediately with a tool for them and their families to be able to do this routinely,? he says.

Many researchers disagree with Owen's contention that these individuals are conscious. But Owen takes a practical approach to applying the technology, hoping that it will identify patients who might respond to rehabilitation, direct the dosing of analgesics and even explore some patients' feelings and desires. ?Eventually we will be able to provide something that will be beneficial to patients and their families,? he says.

Still, he shies away from asking patients the toughest question of all ? whether they wish life support to be ended ? saying that it is too early to think about such applications. ?The consequences of asking are very complicated, and we need to be absolutely sure that we know what to do with the answers before we go down this road,? he warns.

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With short, reddish hair and beard, Owen is a polished speaker who is not afraid of publicity. His home page is a billboard of links to his television and radio appearances. He lectures to scientific and lay audiences with confidence and a touch of defensiveness.

Owen traces the roots of his experiments to the late 1990s, when he was asked to write a review of clinical applications for technologies such as fMRI. He says that he had a ?weird crisis of confidence?. Neuroimaging had confirmed a lot of what was known from brain mapping studies, he says, but it was not doing anything new. ?We would just tweak a psych test and see what happens,? says Owen. As for real clinical applications: ?I realized there weren't any. We all realized that.?

Owen wanted to find one. He and his colleagues got their chance in 1997, with a 26-year-old patient named Kate Bainbridge. A viral infection had put her in a coma ? a condition that generally persists for two to four weeks, after which patients die, recover fully or, in rare cases, slip into a vegetative or a minimally conscious state ? a more recently defined category characterized by intermittent hints of conscious activity.

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UN observers in Syria suspend operations

BEIRUT (AP) ? U.N. observers in Syria suspended their activities and patrols Saturday because of escalating violence in the country, the head of the mission said, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan for Syria is disintegrating.

Maj. Gen. Robert Mood said rising bloodshed over the past 10 days was posing significant risks to the lives of the 300 unarmed observers in the country, and was impeding their ability to carry out their mandate.

The observers were sent to the country after international envoy Kofi Annan brokered a peace plan that included a cease-fire that was supposed to take effect on April 12. But both sides have continued to stage daily attacks and the observers themselves have been caught up in the violence on several occasions.

The U.N. observers have been the only working part of Annan's the plan, which the international community sees as its only hope to stop the bloodshed. They were initially sent to monitor compliance with the cease-fire but ultimately became the most independent witnesses the carnage between government and rebel forces that have largely ignored the truce.

The Syrian government, intent on wresting back control of rebel-held areas, launched a fierce offensive in recent days to recover territories in several locations, shelling heavily populated districts and using attack helicopters over towns and cities.

U.N. officials have said that the opposition, in turn, is increasingly coordinating attacks against government forces and civilian infrastructure.

On Saturday, government troops kept up their relentless shelling of rebel-held districts in the central city of Homs, killing at least five. Another 12, including a man, his wife and child, were killed in overnight shelling of suburbs of the capital Damascus.

"U.N. observers will not be conducting patrols and will stay in their locations until further notice," Mood said in a statement Saturday. He said the observers will not leave the country, and the suspension will be reviewed on a daily basis.

"Operations will resume when we see the situation fit for us to carry out our mandated activities," he said.

The suspension signals the unraveling of Annan's plan as the conflict that began in March 2011 with peaceful protests challenging the regime spirals closer toward civil war. Activists say some 14,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

Western powers have stuck by the plan, in part because there are no other options on the table. There is little appetite for the military intervention that helped oust Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, and several rounds of sanctions have failed to stop the bloodshed.

The U.S. was now consulting with allies about "next steps toward a Syrian-led political transition," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said, adding that "the sooner this transition takes place, the greater the chance of averting a lengthy and bloody sectarian civil war."

Vietor was referring to the two U.N. resolutions that detailed Anan's peace plan and called for political dialogue between the government and the country's fractured opposition. He did not give further details in his statement.

Mood did not elaborate or say whether the monitors might eventually leave, but on Friday, he said states that provide the observers were concerned that the risk is approaching an unacceptable level ? suggesting the violence could prompt the observers to pull out of the country at some point.

"The lack of willingness by the parties to seek a peaceful transition, and the push towards advancing military positions is increasing the losses on both sides," Mood said. "It is also posing significant risks to our observers."

The Syrian government said it conveyed to Mood its "understanding" of the decision taken and blamed the rebels, whom it refers to as "terrorists" for the escalation.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had "clarified to the leadership of the U.N. mission that armed terrorist groups have conducted, since the signing of the Annan plan, an increase in criminal operations that have targeted, many times, the observers, and threatened their lives."

The opposition, for its part, has blamed the regime for the attacks near the observers.

Last week, an observers' convoy was blocked and attacked with stones, metal rods and gunfire by an angry crowd as it was trying to head to the town of Haffa in the coastal Latakia region, where troops had been battling rebels for a week.

The observers only managed to enter once government troops had seized the area back from the rebels.

On May 15, a roadside bomb damaged observers' cars shortly after they met with Syrian rebels in the northern town of Khan Sheikoun. A week earlier, a roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck in the south of the country just seconds after Mood drove by in a convoy.

Still, their presence has been a crucial source of independent information, particularly as Syria bars journalists from reporting freely in the country.

Despite fears that violence could significantly worsen without the their presence on the ground, prominent activist Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was better for the U.N. teams to leave.

"We haven't seen anything beneficial from them. If they are independent ? so what?" he said. "A lot of crimes happened in Syria, and they couldn't do anything."

He called on the international community to more actively intervene to halt the bloodshed in Syria.

"The situation can't get worse than this: are we afraid that it's a civil war? Well it is a civil war. The situation is difficult. The international community's silence on Syria is working to destroy Syria," Abdul-Rahman said.

In the Damascus suburb of Douma, where overnight shelling killed 12 people, activist Mohammed Douma said the presence of observers had been irrelevant anyway, adding that they hadn't visited Douma, a hotspot, in a week.

"But anyway, all they can do is record what they see, they cannot help," he said.

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Associated Press writer Diaa Hadid contributed to this report.

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Recession, Stalemate in Washington vs. Obama's record

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Long term remember that the economic vision of mr.

Romney and his allies in congress.

What's tested just a few years ago we try this.

Their policies did not grow the economy.

Cannot grow the middle class.

They did not reduce our debt.

Why would we think that they would work.

Better this time.

He has put together almost as much public debt as all the prior presidents combined.

You want four more years of that.

You call that forward.

That's forward over a cliff.

That that's forward on the way to Greece I don't want that I will finally get America on track to have a balanced budget that we will limit the size of government.

Obama and got a.

Romney almost bumped into each other today President Obama and governor -- both in Ohio and both playing out there competing economic visions.

Farm presidential candidate senator Fred Thompson -- there thank you good with you put it takes a lot harder -- a bad economy to be the incumbent he said his statement president Obama's that we test that we tried this he's been an -- three and a half years the first thing I thought of the Yangtze at 69000 jobs in May which was terrible which is -- and out of -- up eight point 2% so under that theory we tried -- he's argued against himself.

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-- for the last.

Three and a few years he's been demonstrating the -- and understand the basics of the economy and what to do about.

They came in very convinced that games' in economics you bail amount.

They were very brash about what they thought the unemployment.

Percentage would be after -- policies were a student dead wrong about that dead wrong about the effect of the stimulus.

Went around -- that you know we don't turn this thing around me you know give us you know you can kick us out Clinton said that.

And couple years ago.

As well as Obama so now.

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Which we're likely to feel here at home.

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Governor Romney.

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I think that's a big dangers when would get a -- I think that I.

I'm not suggesting you do that -- and that it let's admit.

That is due to the event and on the day you know the president didn't seem to feel this way right now it's gonna be the person that the people feel like.

Is gonna do the most for the economy in the future and the one that will be the best caretaker going forward -- There's sort of looking back here and I think that LeBron is getting his legs under him they made a very good speech -- they didn't use approach teleprompter.

President was up there you know same old teleprompter saying little -- been giving you know same old litany of good things that presence of them saying they wanted since George Washington.

I -- which is -- you're working against.

So.

I think that.

You know the president is.

Is intent on rewriting history.

He talks about the failed policies of the past you know Republicans don't wanna be tied to George W.

Bush anybody else so they let that person shouldn't.

People are to me anyway I don't have to let that parents should leave.

The policies of George WW bush should not be measured but the last 24 hours -- worst year of his administration.

Fact my bush tax -- she didn't cause this -- didn't cause this deficit after the bush tax cuts we have the greatest increase in revenue for the federal government.

In the history.

And lots of things -- recessions you know we've had five or six of them in my generation.

We always come out of recession.

I've actually congress we've can be blamed that collectively for the analog reception because of the housing bubble and and their inability to be good stewards of our economy and all the things with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac so there's a week so -- Moos there -- and a lot of there's a lot of blame to go around you know what I -- us it said the president strength was in inspiring people.

And today he see says something he admits economically that and that our economy isn't where it needs to be.

And I thought you know he's he's he's he's so off -- balance in terms of inspiring people obscenity you know I -- He's used -- making admissions that I think take away from it strikes.

He's literally out of things to say.

I mean they -- this is there's a framework speech you know going forward and all but you know the president at this -- the game with this economy.

I was standing up there I'm saying -- our plan is education.

Infrastructure.

Balanced budget balanced budget -- it but but all those I mean.

Come home I mean you know we have now.

A half a million more people unemployed.

Then.

Than we did the day took office.

He can't escape his own.

Tenure in office you know weren't -- Romney did twenty years ago -- the private sector he thinks is Roland what bush did you know 458.

Years ago we've -- drove it.

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Is not relevant the fact of the matter is.

That and we got out of this recession about a half a year and and Obama's first years.

I mean if you talk about.

Turning turning the corner about six months then we turned the corner built up to grow through about 4% of their time in the last part of his first year.

-- the first part of his second year we were up to about 4%.

Then there's something strange happened usually who have moved the -- the recession the quicker the bounce back we started bounced back and then something happened.

And that was that things turned back around again just -- his spending.

Started kicking and the economy started going down has been going down ever sense and now it's more what one point 71 point eight.

Is that growth -- and he says he's got six months so our last 200 that are up there on time.

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Yahoo?s Mobile Sales Head Joins Ad Startup Drawbridge

Paul CushmanDrawbridge, a cross-device ad targeting startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, announced today it has hired Yahoo's former mobile sales head as its new vice president of sales and business development. The hire in question is Paul Cushman, whose official title at Yahoo was senior director of mobile sales strategy. Despite the turmoil at the top of Yahoo, and the virtually unending criticism it seems to get in the press, Cushman insists that his departure shouldn't be read as a sign of dissatisfaction with his old employer.

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