Former Komen executive stands by Wasserman Schultz, Karl Rove claims

Former Susan G. Komen for the Cure vice president for public policy Karen Handel stands by the anecdotes in her recent book ?Planned Bullyhood? that have received pushback from Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Republican strategist Karl Rove.

Handel, who resigned amid the Planned Parenthood grant controversy at the beginning of the year, told The Daily Caller in an interview at the Values Voters Summit Friday that she was accurately reporting the information that had been relayed to her in the heat of Komen?s decision to end funding for Planned Parenthood and then subsequently to reverse the decision.

In her book, Handel tells of a phone call that was ?extremely ugly in its tone? made by Wasserman Schultz to Komen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker shortly before the public announcement that Komen would stop giving grants to Planned Parenthood.

According to Handel, the Florida Democratic congresswoman spoke harshly of Handle, a pro-lifer who had run unsuccessfully for governor of Georgia 2010, saying, ?How dare you hire someone who was diametrically opposed to Planned Parenthood.?

Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse disputed the tone of the call.

?I can only say how the nature of the call was related to me,? Handel told TheDC. ?I?m a very rabid notetaker, and when I?m on phone calls with folks, I take very detailed notes. And when it got to the part about me ?? when a sitting member of Congress says the phrase, how dare you? That in and of itself is a threatening phraseology.?

Handel has repeatedly said politics played no role in the decision to end Planned Parenthood grants, and that it was under consideration before she arrived at Komen.

The former Komen executive also recounted how Brinker told her, in the midst of the uproar over the decision to end Planned Parenthood grants, that Rove recommended that the organization reverse its decision.

?I?ve talked to a lot of people. And even Karl says we have to backtrack,? Handel recalled Brinker telling her.

Rove told TheDC last week that the claim is ?not accurate.?

Handel reiterated the charge to TheDC, with the caveat that Brinker likely sought advice from her vast network of friends and confidants.

?I?ll tell you specifically what Ambassador Brinker said ?? that we have to reverse, we just have no choice, even Karl thinks we have to reverse, I put the exact verbiage in the book,? Handel said. ?I mean, so I don?t know who called who, I will tell you that in working with Ambassador Brinker for the time that I did, she is the person that when she?s uncertain about something, she calls many people. She has a vast network. So I?m going to assume she called a lot of people, it wouldn?t surprise me that he was one of them. And I just know what she said to me.?

Handel added that characterizing Rove as an adviser to Komen is likely too strong.

?I mean, I think she just [was] calling people she respected and friends,? she said.

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Report: Winklevoss twins invest in social network company

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Winklevoss twins, best known for their legal battle against Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook Inc, have invested in SumZero, a social network company aimed at professional investors, The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have put $1 million into SumZero, which was founded by fellow Harvard University alumni Divya Narendra and Aalap Mahadevia in 2008, the article said. Narendra was an ally to the Winklevoss twins during their lawsuit against Facebook, which won the brothers a cash and stock settlement valued at $65 million at a time when the company was valued at $15 billion.

Facebook's market cap is currently valued at $47 billion.

In June 2011, the twins decided not to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling upholding their $65 million settlement.

The 2008 accord was intended to resolve a feud over whether Zuckerberg stole the idea for what became the world's most popular social networking website from the Winklevosses, who like him, had attended Harvard. Their battle was dramatized in the 2010 film "The Social Network."

After agreeing to the cash-and-stock accord, the Winklevosses sought to undo it, saying it was fraudulent because Facebook hid information from them and that they deserved more money.

In February, the brothers formed Winklevoss Capital as a vehicle to invest their personal wealth. Their first investment in June was SumZero, which brings together investors to share trading ideas and research, the WSJ reported.

SumZero.com has 7,500 members and has parallels with the first versions of Facebook, including exclusivity.

The site also allows investors to become members only if they work on the "buy side." SumZero defines that group as investment professionals at hedge funds, mutual funds and private-equity firms. Analysts from the "sell side" such as Wall Street banks are not allowed, the report said.

(Reporting by Nadia Damouni, editing by Gary Crosse)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/winklevoss-twins-invest-social-network-company-report-025826502--sector.html

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Olympic Stadium set for a future in football

LONDON (Reuters) - London's Olympic Stadium looks set to become home to Premier League football club West Ham United, ensuring the venue retains a prominent role in British sport once the memories of a golden Games begin to fade.

Mayor Boris Johnson last week took charge of the body that will decide in the coming weeks on the future of the 430-million-pound stadium. Having staged an acclaimed Games, London is desperate to find a tenant with the commercial clout to support efforts to revive a once rundown part of the capital.

Newly restored to the English Premier League, West Ham are the best known of four bidders competing to move into a stadium built for the Games, and appear to have the strongest business credentials.

A deal for the club to take over the stadium following the Games collapsed after a legal challenge last year. Under the new plan, the freehold of the stadium would remain in public ownership and the new tenant would take a long-term lease.

Bidders also include third tier English football club Leyton Orient, who are open to sharing with West Ham. The others are a group who want to stage a Formula One motor racing grand prix and a college offering degrees in football business.

"What you need in order to make a stadium work are recurring quality events which attract large crowds," said Richard Cheesman, Director Business Development and Funding at industry experts International Stadia Group.

Cheesman said the U.S. city of Atlanta, widely criticised for a poorly organised Games in 1996, was one of the few cities to have put an Olympic stadium to good use. Reconfigured and renamed Turner Field, it has been home to Major League Baseball team Atlanta Braves for 15 years.

"They looked at it in Atlanta and decided it was baseball that was going to fill the stadium. In London it's Premier League football and concerts," added Cheesman.

REVIVING LONDON

Billions of pounds have been spent transforming Stratford, the former industrial area where the Olympic Park is located.

One of the poorest parts of London, the area is now home to Europe's largest urban shopping mall, built by Australian property developer Westfield.

The apartments which this summer housed the world's top athletes are now being converted into 2,800 homes to be leased next year by developers. Premier League football would ensure the area retained a high profile.

"West Ham seems logical," said a real estate source close to the Olympic Park. "It was the preferred bidder and has a comprehensive plan in place ready to go."

"You need that level of throughput and investment in the stadium that a top football team will provide. It needs to create revenue and not sit empty for 340 days a year," he added.

West Ham have played at Upton Park, close to the Olympic Stadium, since 1904 and not all of their fans want to move.

Their ground holds around 35,000 and is one of the most atmospheric in the Premier League. However, the club is ambitious to move to a new home that would have a higher capacity and better facilities for both regular supporters and money-spinning corporate guests.

Eighty thousand fans packed the stadium during the Olympics but the capacity is expected to fall to around 60,000 once it is converted for regular use.

The running track will remain at the stadium which will host the World Athletics Championships in 2017.

West Ham are believed to be exploring the possibility of installing retractable seats that would go over the track and allow fans to remain close to the action.

Michael Payne, former marketing chief of the International Olympic Committee, said the opening and closing ceremonies showed the venue worked for entertainment as well as sports.

Payne also noted how well connected the site was to central London via series of rail routes.

"I was astonished at how easy it was in terms of transportation access," he said. "Rule number one for a venue is ease of access. Clearly the Games proved it."

(Additional reporting by Tom Bill; Writing by Keith Weir; Editing by Mark Potter)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/olympic-stadium-set-future-football-113428578--finance.html

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Myanmar democracy icon meets with Hillary Clinton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi warned on Tuesday that reforms in her country had cleared only the "first hurdle" and said she supported an easing of U.S. sanctions.

The Nobel laureate said American economic sanctions were a useful tool for putting pressure on Myanmar's military government, but now the people need to consolidate democracy on their own.

"I do support the easing of sanctions," she said in remarks after a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington on the opening day of a two-week tour of the United States.

Suu Kyi, who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for championing democracy in opposition to a military junta that held her under house arrest for years, began her 17-day tour with talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a standing room only speech at the Washington think tank.

"We have crossed the first hurdle but there are many more hurdles to cross," she said in the speech, her first public appearance in the United States.

Clinton told the same event Suu Kyi's followers and the quasi-civilian government needed to work together to heal past wounds and "guard against backsliding because there are forces that would take the country in the wrong direction if given the chance."

Suu Kyi, whose last stay in the United States was in the 1970s as a United Nations employee, will visit the large emigre community from her country in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and make a series of public speeches from New York to California.

Suu Kyi's U.S. tour will coincide with a visit by Thein Sein, Myanmar's reformist president, who heads to New York on September 24 to address the U.N. General Assembly.

Thein Sein, a former junta general, was scheduled to meet U.S. officials on the sidelines of U.N. meetings and his aides said he would try to convey Myanmar's urgent need for the import ban and other American sanctions to be eased.

Suu Kyi's election to parliament in April helped to transform Myanmar's pariah image and convince the West to begin rolling back sanctions after a year of dramatic reforms, including the release of about 700 political prisoners in amnesties between May 2011 and July.

Suu Kyi, striking a professorial tone in her first U.S. speech, said the rapid normalization of U.S.-Myanmar ties over the past 18 months was "particularly illustrative of the dimensions of geopolitics and history."

Many people around the region are asking, she said, whether U.S. engagement with Myanmar "was aimed at containing the influence of China in Asia."

She said Myanmar's engagement with the United States did not imply any deterioration in its relationship with China or mean that Myanmar-U.S. ties "in any way can be seen as a hostile threat to China."

MYANMAR MOVES

Before Suu Kyi arrived in the United States on Monday, Myanmar announced a pardon of more than 500 prisoners in an amnesty that included at least 80 political detainees, according to activists.

The announcement, seen as a step that could strengthen the former military state's growing bonds with Washington, did not make clear if any of the 514 were political prisoners, but two activist groups who monitor dissidents jailed in Myanmar said more than 80 were given presidential pardons.

The U.S. State Department reacted cautiously to news of the amnesty, repeating its call for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.

Clinton said on Tuesday Myanmar still "had a lot of work to do."

"Political prisoners remain in detention. Ongoing ethnic and sectarian violence continues to undermine progress toward national reconciliation, stability and lasting peace," said Clinton.

The U.S. Campaign for Burma, a Washington-based democracy advocacy group, said the United States was correct to retain sanctions for leverage and remove them only gradually amid ongoing war against ethnic minority groups in Myanmar.

"The fragility of the peace talks with various ethnic groups and the situation in western Burma remain serious issues that need more substantial progress before we believe any additional U.S. sanctions are lifted," said Jennifer Quigley, the group's advocacy director.

(Additional reporting by Andrew Quinn; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/myanmar-democracy-icon-suu-kyi-begins-key-u-144102166.html

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Analysis: Euro crisis tests limits of "French exception"

PARIS (Reuters) - The French consider themselves an exceptional lot. With much of the world's finest food, wine, landscape, architecture, literature and arts, it's hardly surprising.

But the French economic exception faces a reality check almost three years into the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis.

France's enduring ability to defy economic gravity - adding new taxes on top of one of the highest fiscal burdens in Europe, preserving short working hours, job protection, early retirement and generous welfare benefits - is about to be tested.

President Francois Hollande has promised to bring the deficit down to 3 percent of gross domestic product in next week's 2013 budget from a forecast 4.5 percent this year.

Unlike many European peers, he plans to achieve two-thirds of the adjustment by raising extra revenue, despite a virtually flat economy, and less than a third by freezing public spending in nominal terms.

Public spending accounts for 56 percent of French GDP, the highest level in Europe except for Denmark.

The French are bipartisan big spenders. The debt and deficit rose most under conservative presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.

From Germany to China, leaders are fretting over France's inability or unwillingness to embrace reforms widely implemented elsewhere to make its economy more competitive.

Where others are slimming down the public sector and selling off state assets, Hollande aims to keep the size of the five-million-strong civil service constant, hiring more teachers and policemen but whittling down the armed forces.

SOAKING THE RICH

"Soak the rich" is the order of the day for the "Mr Normal" Socialist who defeated Sarkozy in May, declaring "my main enemy is the world of finance" and opposing austerity in the name of growth.

Hollande may water down his flagship confiscatory 75 percent tax on income over 1 million euros ($1.31 million) a year to spare performing artists, "creators" and sports stars.

But he is determined to increase the tax take on top salaries, investment income, big corporations, bonuses and stock options to fulfill his campaign promises of social justice and a fair sharing of sacrifices.

Yet higher taxation of businesses runs counter to his goal of reviving growth and may raise relatively little revenue. Hollande risks killing the cow he is trying to milk.

With unemployment rising above 10 percent as companies from automaker Peugeot to steelmaker ArcelorMittal cut jobs and reduce production in France, he acknowledged last week the country had a problem of competitiveness.

All indicators of competitiveness - from unit labour costs to the quality of education and training - show a growing gap with Germany, France's biggest economic partner, highlighted by Paris' trade deficit, which reached 70 billion euros in 2011.

Hollande wants to reduce labour costs by transferring social charges to a broad levy on income, and to make permanent job contracts more flexible. He is seeking the consent of trade unions, most of whom are hostile to loosening labour laws.

The president hopes through negotiation to avoid the strikes and mass protests that defeated conservative predecessors' attempts to overhaul employment terms. The outcome is uncertain and the reform may end up too small to stimulate job creation.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE

Scalded by Sarkozy's attempts at shock therapy, the French seem to prefer protecting incumbents in work to getting the unemployed and the young into jobs, or see no connection between the two.

Indeed France sometimes seems to exist in a parallel universe when it comes to economics.

Faced with competition from China and offshoring to low-cost locations such as eastern Europe and Morocco, the first instinct is to demand trade barriers, outlaw redundancies, punish French firms that produce abroad or demand state subsidies.

While social democratic parties elsewhere in Europe have adapted welfare policies in hard times to make benefits more selective, targeting the needy rather than spraying money on the middle classes, the French Socialists are an exception.

No question of subjecting generous family allowances to a means test or making the better-off pay more for their healthcare or higher education. Equality and fraternity trump affordability.

Ironically, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a Social Democrat who introduced painful labour market and welfare reforms in 2004, was guest of honor at the French employers' conference this month. His name is rarely mentioned by his French party comrades.

So far, financial markets have been indulgent with France, treating its deep, liquid bond market as an alternative to ultra-safe haven Germany, and much safer than Italy and Spain.

This has enabled Paris to borrow at historically low rates even as its public debt has risen to 90 percent of GDP, higher than Spain's.

French yields shrugged off both the loss of the state's triple-A credit rating from Standard & Poor's in January and a big U.S. investment manager's warning in August that French debt was "significantly overvalued".

John Gilbert, chief investment officer for General Re, a unit of Warren Buffet's Berkshre Hathaway empire, raised the prospect that markets might turn on France.

Moody's is the next ratings agency due to pass judgment on France's AAA, right after the September 28 budget presentation.

But even if it too downgrades Paris, the French seem to be shielded for now from a market stampede by their rank in the pecking-order of European sovereign debtors, and their proven ability to raise taxes.

"Sentiment towards Italy would need to deteriorate dramatically for France's bond market to come under severe pressure," says Nicholas Spiro at fixed income consultancy Spiro Sovereign Strategy.

"Indeed because expectations about reforms under President Hollande are so low, there is more scope for a slight rally if the government starts to get serious about labour market reform."

As long as market pressure remains so weak, the French exception seems set to endure, at the cost of an elegant but inexorable decline.

(Editing by Andrew Roche)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-euro-crisis-tests-limits-french-exception-065117782--business.html

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Apple EarPods

After 11 long years, not counting a very minor mid-cycle update, Apple has finally completely redesigned its trademark white earphones that come bundled with every iPod and iPhone. And with good results. In fact, Apple may have achieved the impossible: The EarPods ($29 direct, if purchased separately) ?actually deliver some bass punch, without resorting to an in-canal, rubber-tipped design that accumulates ear wax (ick). Despite Apple's claims, the EarPods still don't fit everyone. But for doing what the Apple earbuds should have done all along?providing good sound quality and comfort on a budget?the EarPods are an easy recommendation.

Concept and Fit
Remember that the goal here isn't for Apple to deliver a high-end pair of earphones that compete with our favorites from AKG, Sennheiser, or Shure. Instead, the question is, are the EarPods good enough that you won't feel like you need to upgrade immediately? And if they break and you need another set, or if you're looking to replace a worn pair on an older iPod or iPhone, should you get these, or head to Amazon or Best Buy and pick up a different pair?

Let's talk about the unique design first. The EarPods are made entirely of white plastic. They look custom molded, thanks to the unusual earbud shape. Apple claims the idea is to build the diaphragm out of both rigid and flexible materials, which minimizes sound loss, while adding acoustic vents in the stem of each EarPod to improve bass. A few inches down the right earbud wire, you'll find inline call controls that will work with all iPhones; you get prominent volume buttons and an indented multi-function button.

The EarPods are compatible with any device with a 3.5mm headphone jack, including all iPads, iPods, and iPhones, though Apple says some models may not support the inline volume controls.?Apple includes a small plastic carrying case that takes a little work?you need to wrap the earbuds in, then the inline controls, and then the wire around the edges?but it's a nice touch and infinitely preferable to untangling them every day on the subway.

First welcome surprise: The EarPods fit and don't fall out, at least for me. Not everyone has this problem, but for whatever reason, the original Apple Earphones (not to mention many Bluetooth headsets) have never stayed in properly. I guess I'm lopsided, but the right earbud always falls out, which is one of the reasons I prefer in-canal earphones and over-the-ear headphones to earbuds. The EarPods are the first ones I've tried that are made entirely of plastic yet still stay put. On the other hand, my editor tried them, and they wouldn't stay in her ears. We'll call the fit a toss-up, but certainly not the sure thing Apple implies.

Performance and Conclusions
Second welcome surprise: Bass. In my tests, Muse's "Uprising" had all the kick drum and midbass rumble it was supposed to have. In Metallica's Mastered-For-iTunes "Hate Train," I could still hear the kick drum even with the guitars crushing down, albeit barely. On The Knife's "Silent Shout," our standard bass test track, there is actually some decent tail "boom" on the 808 kick drum, although some details in the bass synth behind?the kick drum are a bit lost and distorted at higher volumes.

Okay, there's still not much low-end extension. Hip hop, rap, and other electronic music lovers, not to mention classical listeners looking to vibrate their skulls with a pipe organ's low notes or rumbling timpani rolls, should stick with an in-ear rubber-tipped set?even an inexpensive pair, because the tight seal you get automatically enhances those frequencies. But there actually is some?low-end extension, which is surprising, particularly once you turn up the volume. The only thing I worry about here is that while the EarPods can get pretty loud, they don't really punch until you turn 'em up, which is not good for your hearing. Watch the volume dial and add a little EQ if you need more bass.Apple EarPods

Otherwise, the EarPods sound fine, but by no means exceptional. You don't get a lot of midrange or high-end detail. In fact, from the midrange on up, they sound a lot like the original Apple earbuds, though they're a bit smoother and more detailed.?There's also some slight audible harshness in the upper midrange, but it's not offensive. And that's expected for less than $30.?Metric's "Youth Without Youth" had tons of energy, and didn't distort at all (besides what it was supposed to do). Ludovico Einaudi's "A Fuoco" lacked a sense of air around the instruments that you'd get with higher-end earphones, and you don't hear the little noises that indicate a bow on strings, but at least the piano and violin sound smooth and natural.

Note that there's also some sound leakage that people nearby will hear. It's a bit more than you'll get with in-canal earbuds, but a little less than with the regular Apple earbuds.?Also, for the same reason, the EarPods don't block out much external noise; if you want something that minimizes train or airplane noise, for example, go with an in-canal design or a noise-cancelling pair.

Finally, for phone calls, voices sounded fine in both directions, with a warm tone in the earpiece. Transmissions through the inline microphone were?clear and well balanced, if slightly muffled.

So the EarPods aren't perfect?far from it?but in most cases, you're not paying for them since they come with iPods and iPhones. And many missteps can be forgiven with a $29 price tag. Our budget Editors' Choice earphone pair, the AKG K 350??sound better all around, particularly with midrange and high-end detail and low-end bass extension, but they also costs a lot more. Apple is still selling the original "classic" earphones for the same $29. Steer clear of those and grab the EarPods instead; you'll be glad you did. Even better if they came with your new iPod or iPhone.

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Kids and Teens ?M? | CrossFit-HR

Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:15 Last Updated on Sunday, 16 September 2012 16:35 Written by Jered 0 Comments

Remember! The ?Beat the Streets? fundraiser workout is on Saturday at 1PM over in the Adults Gym (107 Production Drive). See you there!

Warm up

2 Rounds:

  • 200 M run
  • Sprint 20 M
  • Run backwards 20 M
  • Sprint 20 M
  • High knee Skip 20 M
  • High knee skip backwards 20 M
  • Basic Dot Drill 10 Times

Skill Work

  • Double Unders
  • Rope Climbs

WOD

10 min AMRAP

  • 5 thrusters
  • 10 pull-ups
  • 15 double-unders

Source: http://www.crossfithamptonroads.com/2012/09/kids-and-teens-m-2/

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US, Israel play down differences over Iran

As the presidential election approaches, the US and Israel are downplaying any differences regarding Iran?s nuclear capabilities, although defining any 'red line' remains elusive. In the Strait of Hormuz, the US is leading a major naval exercise aimed at Iran.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / September 16, 2012

President Barack Obama met Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in New York in September, 2011. The White House denies that President Obama refused a request from Prime Minister Netanyahu to meet at the UN this week, citing conflicts in the leaders' schedules.

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As the presidential election approaches, senior US and Israeli officials are downplaying any differences between the countries regarding Iran?s nuclear capabilities.

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Susan Rice, American Ambassador to the United Nations, says there?s ?no daylight? between the two countries, emphasizing that the Obama administration "will do what it takes" to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he won?t be drawn into the US election. ?I will say that we value, we cherish the bipartisan support for Israel in the United States, and we're supported by Democrats and Republicans alike,? he says.

Ambassador Rice and Prime Minister Netanyahu were speaking on CNN?s ?State of the Union? Sunday at a time when relations between Netanyahu and President Obama have been strained over Israel?s call for a ?red line? regarding Iran, beyond which military action directed at Iran?s nuclear facilities would become inevitable.

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Although Netanyahu professes neutrality when it comes to US domestic politics, it is well known that he has a close and warm relationship with GOP challenger Mitt Romney. They met as corporate advisors together in Boston in the 1970s, and they have been friends ever since.

Last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of California chided the Israeli prime minister for his reported criticism of Obama.

?Are you suggesting that the United States is not Israel?s closest ally and does not stand by Israel?? Sen. Boxer wrote to Netanyahu. ?Are you saying that Israel, under President Obama, has not received more in annual security assistance from the United States than at any time in its history, including for the Iron Dome Missile Defense System??

?As other Israelis have said, it appears that you have injected politics into one of the most profound security challenges of our time ? Iran?s illicit pursuit of nuclear weapons,? Sen. Boxer wrote, noting that she is ?one of Israel?s staunchest supporters in Congress.?
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But now Netanyahu downplays any differences he may have with Obama, asserting on NBC?s ?Meet the Press? Sunday that Mr. Romney's accusation about Obama having ?thrown Israel under the bus,? as Romney once put it, is "simply not the case and simply not my position."

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