PRES OBAMA DELIVERING THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TODAY AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE **

ABOUT 500 STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO RECEIVE THEIR DIPLOMAS AT THE ALL-MALE, **

IT'S OBAMA'S SECOND GRADUATION SPEECH THIS YEAR **

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N KOREA FIRES A PROJECTILE INTO WATERS OFF ITS EASTERN COAST, ACCORDING TO **

IT'S UNCLEAR WHETHER THE LAUNCH WAS A MISSILE OR ARTILLERY ROUND **

THIS COMES A DAY AFTER PYONGYANG TEST FIRED THREE SHORT-RANGE MISSILES **

N KOREA IS BANNED FROM TESTING BALLISTIC MISSILES UNDER UN SECURITY COUNCIL **

UN SECY-GEN BAN KI-MOON HOPING AN INTL CONFERENCE TO END SYRIA'S DEADLY **

THE U.S. AND RUSSIA HAVE AGREED TO TRY TO BRING THE SYRIAN REGIME AND **

THIS COMES AMID SYRIA'S TWO-YEAR CIVIL WAR THAT'S LEFT AN ESTIMATED 80,000 **

PRES OBAMA PLANS TO ADDRESS HIS ADMIN'S COUNTERTERRORISM POLICIES DURING A **

WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL SAYS THE SPEECH WILL ADDRESS THE ADMIN'S DRONE PROGRAM **

OBAMA WILL DELIVER THE SPEECH ON THURS AT THE NATL DEFENSE UNIV **

IN RESPONSE, S KOREA DEPLOYED DOZENS OF GUIDED MISSILES ON ISLANDS NEAR A **

CREWS REMOVING TRAINS DAMAGED DURING FRIDAY'S METRO-NORTH COLLISION IN CT **

THE RUSH-HOUR CRASH ON FRI LEFT 72 PEOPLE INJURED IN FAIRFIELD AFTER AN **

INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO A BROKEN SECTION OF A RAIL IN CONNECTION **

U.S. EMBASSY EMPLOYEE IN RUSSIA ACCUSED OF SPYING HAS LEFT MOSCOW, **

EARLIER THIS WEEK, RUSSIAN SECURITY CLAIMED RYAN FOGLE, A THIRD SECRETARY **

HE WAS ORDERED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY IN RESPONSE **

notes

UPDATE on Governor Romney’s “binders full of women” comment at last night’s debate

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Oct 17 2012 - 4:02 PM ET

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If you watched last night’s debate, you heard Governor Romney speak about women in his State Cabinet and used the term “binders full of women.”  That phrase is getting a lot of attention today.  Below is an AP article:

By BOB SALSBERG

 

Associated Press

 

BOSTON (AP) — A coalition of Massachusetts women’s groups says GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney did, in fact, receive binders with the names of potential female candidates for high-level positions when he was governor.

 

Romney’s remark at Tuesday’s debate with President Barack Obama that he was sent “binders full of women” has touched off a wave of social media parodies. He said in the debate that he reached out to women’s organizations after being dissatisfied with the mostly male applicants for senior level positions in his administration.

 

But representatives of the Massachusetts Government Appointments Project note the effort, which did increase the number of women in top positions, started before Romney was elected in 2002.

 

MassGAP describes itself as a nonpartisan coalition of women’s groups.

 

(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

 

APTV 10-17-12 1500EDT

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