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...radio changes, just like everything else. A few years back, I hit preset number three in my ancient Ford Taurus station wagon, but to my dismay, the familiar jingle of Arrow 93.1 was nowhere to be heard. The station was gone—replaced by the anonymous, jockey-free “Jack...
...sooner had the Nobel Peace Prize been awarded to Barack Obama than countless observers around the globe were shaking their head in puzzlement or dismay. Sure, there was the Committee's official line, praising Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." But that really didn't shed much light on why the Oslo-based committee had bestowed the prestigious honor on a President who has been in office for less than a year. As Charlotte Lepri, a researcher with the Institute of International and Strategic Relations in Paris, described her friends' and colleagues' reaction...
Kristol described his philosophy as one of "conservative pessimism." During the Clinton presidency, my wife once expressed to him her dismay at baby boomers' self-indulgence. "I wouldn't worry too much," Irving advised. "Soon they'll be dead." A witty, unflinching observer of politics and society, he advised Presidents and undergraduates with equal patience and generosity...
Much to the dismay of liberal critics and some health-policy experts, this so-called trigger plan would be offered state by state rather than on a nationwide basis. If insurers were determined not to offer an affordable choice in a given state, they would still have a second chance to meet affordability standards before the public option would kick in. Snowe, in her amendment, refers to the public option as a "safety net" plan, without specifying whether such a plan would have to meet the minimum standards for adequate insurance coverage defined elsewhere in health-reform legislation. She also...
...unfettered capitalism and hope to win votes at home by controlling its excesses. But even among native English speakers, there's an intriguing debate taking place about the limits of finance, spearheaded by Adair Turner, the chairman of Britain's market regulator, the Financial Services Authority. To the dismay of some in the City of London, he is arguing forcefully that the financial sector in Britain has "swollen beyond its socially useful size...