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...efficiency specialist, Stephen Cowell, on a multibillion-dollar plan under which Washington would offer tax breaks for all kinds of consumer purchases and home improvements that reduce energy use. By November, Doerr made his Roosevelt Room presentation, and before long, the Home Star plan was on the President's desk. Doerr sees Home Star as the next step in creating a new national focus on energy conservation that will generate "thousands" of jobs at the same time, say White House aides. "Never before has anybody pulled together a coalition and said we can take this practice...
...health reform stands as another crucial juncture. If the President fails to win the upcoming series of congressional votes that are designed to get health care legislation to his desk, it will be a calamitous failure for his presidency and for him personally, dwarfing the potholes he has hit during his first bumpy year in office. Indeed, the notion of defeat is so unthinkable for his Administration that Obama's foremost argument in rounding up support in the House and Senate is a panoptic imperative: health care is too important - politically and substantively - to fail. Should the effort collapse, regaining...
...When the 50-page report landed on the desk of Graf's superior, Rear Admiral Kevin Donegan, he relieved her of command...
...living in Berlin at the time so my editor flew in and took Middlesex off of my desk and back to America,” Eugenides recounted. “I tend to doubt my work a lot. I’m always reading it through for flow and messing with it again. It’s not the most effective way, but I enjoy writing that way… I wrote ten openings for “Middlesex” before finding the right one. That was eight hundred to a thousand pages in the trash...
...While in theory a peace process might require that the protagonists make tough choices, the "proximity" process being initiated by the Obama Administration will, in fact, land the tough choices on the desk in the Oval Office. Four months or more from now, it will probably become clear that the gap between Israel and Palestine is unlikely to be bridged by simply talking. And then the question will be, Is the U.S. willing to force the issue by putting on the table its own views of an acceptable settlement and beginning to press both sides toward accepting it? (See pictures...