BBC provides a guide to the Joes in American politics:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7679987.stm
Chaste shares a link to an excellent NYRB article on Georgia by USC professor, Robert English:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22011
NY Times has a story about international monitors calling into question Georgian claims:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/europe/07georgia.html?em
Barack Obama will be the 44th president of United States:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05campaign.html
Article on housing, a heavily subsidized and none-too-productive asset:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5LoEiJ0IyAo