Less than 60 days after Congress passed the historic 700 billion dollar bailout package to aid the failing financial sector, the nations three largest automakers last week strolled to Washington for their own piece of the pie.
Over the last two weeks as Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman and Secretary of the Treasury respectively, paraded through Washington seeking to gain support for their proposed $700 billion financial bailout package, both Congress and the general public were apprehensive.
On Thursday at 12:15 p.m., the university launched a full-scale test of its Emergency Notification Network, an campus-wide communications system that sends text messages, e-mails and voicemail messages to cell, home and office phones in the event of an emergency.
As the Democratic National Convention begins this week, so do the questions remain regarding the party's candidate, Barack Obama. Is he too young? Inexperienced? Ready to lead the nation in a time of war?