Challenges In The News 08/11/08

Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson is on his first tour of Afghanistan. He's struck by the magnitude of the challenge of rebuilding and stabilizing the country.

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HiveLive(TM), Inc., a leading enterprise social software platform provider, today announced a "Community Design Challenge" at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford. HiveLive will award a free customer community that's custom fit and branded to meet the requirements of the winning company.

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt gave Gov. Sarah Palin the first place award Thursday for the state winning the President's National Physical Fitness Challenge.

Barrie to benefit from federal announcement Billions of infrastructure dollars from Ottawa announced Thursday was welcome news to city officials. "The challenge we have as a municipality is to have a secure source of long-term funding to execute our plans," said Richard Forward, general manager of infrastructure, [...]

MOSCOW -- The boom in world oil prices is bolstering autocratic governments in a handful of petroleum-rich countries, emboldening them to challenge U.S. objectives and weakening their own democratic movements.

Responding to a challenge from Birmingham businessman Harry Brock, Samford University's students and employees contributed $155,676 to a school fundraising drive, resulting in a total of $311,352 in donations to the school.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke before a packed room at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial on Friday, pledging her support for U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit, who is facing a rare and potentially tough challenge from two fellow Democrats in the Aug. 5 primary.

Gordon Brown brushed off the threat of a leadership challenge today after the disastrous defeat of Labor in the Glasgow East by-election.

Finding a place for a member of the old guard isn’t something than a pettier sheriff – say, Carona, who sometimes acted with extraordinary vengefulness toward his challengers – would bother doing.

Unraveling Reagan: Amid Turmoil, U.S. Turns Away From Decades of Deregulation. Federal and state governments alike are increasingly hands-on in their effort to deal with failing businesses, plunging house prices, worthless mortgages and soaring energy prices. The steps add up to a major challenge to the movement toward deregulation that has defined American governance for much of the past quarter-century ince the “Reagan Revolution” of the early 1980s. In fact, some proponents today of a bigger oversight role for government are Republican heirs to the legacy of President Reagan. “You have to be prepared to look at everything.”