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For all the blame, credit raters still count on big banks for support

For all the blame, credit raters still have allies in town: big banks

Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry, still used as lobbyists

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

May 31, 2011

Big Tobacco cultivates more people, less land, in Mexico

Human trafficking allegations test diplomatic immunity

By Traver Riggins

April 28, 2011

Allegations of human trafficking against Qatar diplomat highlight immunity issue

ANALYSIS: Pakistani Intelligence Links to Islamic Extremists Run Deep

By Malik Siraj Akbar

May 12, 2011

What the bin Laden raid means for U.S.-Pakistan intelligence relations

Four years after oil company's criminal conviction for pollution, still no sentencing

By Jim Morris

May 4, 2011

Four years after oil company's criminal conviction for air pollution, still no sentencing

Newsmaker interview: Warren says Congress should hold car dealers to same rules as other lenders

Elizabeth Warren, the government’s top advocate on consumer financial issues, says that Congress needs to hold auto dealers to the same basi

Newt Gingrich faces questions about consulting job and support for biofuels

By John Aloysius Farrell

April 25, 2011

Gingrich takes consulting fee from ethanol while getting big fossil fuel donations

Excerpts from this story referencing "Professor":

"… as wasteful.The Journal fired back in an editorial that called Gingrich “Professor Cornpone” and accused him of pandering to farmers and ethanol producers. …"

Blue Dogs, decimated by defeats and retirements, turn to lobbying shops

By Aaron Mehta

May 16, 2011

A third of Blue Dog congress members who left office in January are now on K Street

Excerpts from this story referencing "Professor":

"… hile the Blue Dogs’ politics may have been attractive to lobbying firms, Professor Burdett Loomis of the University of Kansas said that the Blue Dogs also cu …"