Ward Group

Early primary a godsend for incumbents
Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 12/28/2009; 742 words; ...endorse a candidate? Fourth Ward Ald. Toni Preckwinkle assiduously...think so. If the party's ward bosses push through Terry O...white, is the brother of 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke, the Chicago...s fastest-growing minority group, and their activists are pushing...

First the act, then claims of allegiance to al-Qa'ida
The Independent - London; 12/28/2009; 902 words; ...and one tourist executed by a group calling itself al-Qa'ida...Africa Command, General William Ward, said al-Qa'ida had increased...al-Zawahiri, and a looser group of affiliates whose aims - sometimes...Prior to its rebranding the group was a nationalist Islamic insurgency...

Vallejo, Calif., Council Approves 5-Year Bankruptcy Workout Plan.(The Regions)
The Bond Buyer; 12/28/2009; 947 words; Byline: Andrew Ward SAN FRANCISCO - The Vallejo, Calif...banks, the bondholders, the employee groups," said finance director Robert Stout...proposed reductions with bondholders and labor groups. If it cannot convince a majority of its...

Pope presses the flesh, visits Rome soup kitchen
AP Worldstream; 12/27/2009; 1057 words; ...kitchen operated by the Sant'Egidio Community, a lay Catholic group based in Rome, a few miles (kilometers) from the Vatican...condition. The assailant was being kept in the psychiatric ward of a hospital in a town outside of Rome called Subiaco, according...

New findings reported from J. Bailey and co-authors describe advances in dentistry.
Heart Disease Weekly; 12/27/2009; 930 words; ...Health, Heart, and Infectious Diseases Groups' Trials Registers, as well as the following...suitably matched control or comparison groups had been studied. The intervention was...American Acad Family Physicians, 8880 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64114-2797...