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...These challenges are just as Obama defines them: the soaring health-care costs that disadvantage American companies abroad, the difficulty young people—the lifeblood of any economy—have affording higher education, and, most drastically, the threat that a failure to meaningfully combat global warming will pose to both the planet and human lives. As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School professor, wrote for Politico in response to Krauthammer’s piece, Obama is “not only a brilliant strategist, he is a brilliant analyst of America, understanding all the factors that contribute...
...York City sold two paintings from its collection to cover a chronic operating deficit, the Association of Art Museum Directors threw the place into art-world purgatory. It forbade its members from lending work to Academy exhibitions, which effectively prevents it from mounting the loan shows that are the lifeblood of the museum world...
Voters are the lifeblood of a democracy. Since the end of primary season, both campaigns have organized conspicuous voter registration drives to draw people to the voting booths on Nov. 4. But for all the attention that swelling voter rolls have attracted, a disturbing trend in the opposite direction has emerged. Thousands of names across the country have been stricken from voter registration records in a number of locales, some in key swing states. While voter registration rolls must be kept up-to-date and accurate, consistent standards among states and transparency of the “voter purging?...
...Changeling” stays true to this charge, fighting to tell a story of justice and loss till the very end of an emotionally turbulent 140 minutes. Jolie’s impassioned performance at times veers into the melodramatic, but it’s the lifeblood of “Changeling” and more than makes up for underdeveloped characters and a structure that feels too self-aware. As Collins, Jolie plays a single mother in 1920s Los Angeles who one day returns home to find her son missing. In an exhilarating, Oscar-worthy performance, she moves...
...massive construction projects, grants to states and additional aid for food stamps and unemployment benefits. Some are calling it "Plan C," coming in the wake of "Plan A" - the Wall Street rescue package - and "Plan B," the effort now underway to recapitalize ailing banks and get credit, the lifeblood of economic health, flowing again. Both of those plans are to be funded by the $700 billion rescue package Congress recently approved. The stimulus would be the second such bill this year, following a $160 billion economic package that gave tax rebates of up to $600 per adult to fuel consumer...