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Top Lines: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying before Congress on Tuesday and the WSJ’s Real-Time Economics blog will be covering it live. …President Barack Obama was booed by some fans at a basketball game on Monday night after he and First Lady Michelle Obama popped up on Kiss-Cam but didn’t kiss. But he and his wife obliged the fans the second time they were on Kiss-Cam.
Key Reads:
Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are making their pitches to upper-middle-class suburban voters in places like Centennial, Colo., reports Colleen McCain Nelson in the WSJ. Who these voters pick on Nov. 6 could tip the election in several swing states.
Mitt Romney is rejecting calls by many Democrats and some Republicans to release more of his tax returns, saying he has met the standard set by Arizona Sen. John McCain. But his campaign could be hurt if his personal wealth and lack of disclosure dominate the news, Patrick O’Connor and I report in the WSJ.
The Pentagon is building a missile-radar station at a secret site in Qatar and planning its biggest mine-sweeping effort ever in the Persian Gulf as it prepares for any possible conflict with Iran as the full sanctions targeting Iranian oil take effect this summer, reports Julian Barnes and Adam Entous in the WSJ.
The “first families” of Mormons are supporting Mr. Romney in a big way and comprise some of his strongest backers, writes Jim Rutenberg in the Times.
Marissa Mayer of Google was named CEO of Yahoo on Monday, but does she have what it takes to turn the company around? She’s the sixth CEO in five years for the company, writes John Letzing and Amir Efrati in the WSJ.
Top Op-Eds:
Dana Milbank writes in a column for the Washington Post that Mr. Romney is trying to “time-travel” to dodge responsibility for things that happened at Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002. He keys the column off a remark on Sunday by senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie that Mr. Romney “retired retroactively” from the private-equity firm.
David Brooks argues in his column for the Times that Mr. Obama has launched an attack on the very economic system that Mr. Romney embodies.
Michael Gerson says in a column for the Post that Mr. Obama is using the politics of partisan polarization and slandering Mr. Romney with some of his ads about outsourcing.
Last Word:
In a fascinating cover story for the New Republic, Walter Kirn describes his interactions with his former religion of Mormonism.
Top Lines: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying before Congress on Tuesday and the WSJ’s Real-Time Economics blog will be covering it live. …President Barack Obama was booed by some fans at a basketball game on Monday night after he and First Lady Michelle Obama popped up on Kiss-Cam but didn’t kiss. But he and his wife obliged the fans the second time they were on Kiss-Cam.
Key Reads:
Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are making their pitches to upper-middle-class suburban voters in places like Centennial, Colo., reports Colleen McCain Nelson in the WSJ. Who these voters pick on Nov. 6 could tip the election in several swing states.
Mitt Romney is rejecting calls by many Democrats and some Republicans to release more of his tax returns, saying he has met the standard set by Arizona Sen. John McCain. But his campaign could be hurt if his personal wealth and lack of disclosure dominate the news, Patrick O’Connor and I report in the WSJ.
The Pentagon is building a missile-radar station at a secret site in Qatar and planning its biggest mine-sweeping effort ever in the Persian Gulf as it prepares for any possible conflict with Iran as the full sanctions targeting Iranian oil take effect this summer, reports Julian Barnes and Adam Entous in the WSJ.
The “first families” of Mormons are supporting Mr. Romney in a big way and comprise some of his strongest backers, writes Jim Rutenberg in the Times.
Marissa Mayer of Google was named CEO of Yahoo on Monday, but does she have what it takes to turn the company around? She’s the sixth CEO in five years for the company, writes John Letzing and Amir Efrati in the WSJ.
Top Op-Eds:
Dana Milbank writes in a column for the Washington Post that Mr. Romney is trying to “time-travel” to dodge responsibility for things that happened at Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002. He keys the column off a remark on Sunday by senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie that Mr. Romney “retired retroactively” from the private-equity firm.
David Brooks argues in his column for the Times that Mr. Obama has launched an attack on the very economic system that Mr. Romney embodies.
Michael Gerson says in a column for the Post that Mr. Obama is using the politics of partisan polarization and slandering Mr. Romney with some of his ads about outsourcing.
Last Word:
In a fascinating cover story for the New Republic, Walter Kirn describes his interactions with his former religion of Mormonism.