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...less than a year, in spite of having achieved his top legislative priority and overseeing a successful stabilization of the banking industry. Yes, the American people do tend to check their leaders by issuing them losses in midterm elections, but Obama’s performance doesn’t merit the dramatic backlash 2010 is shaping...
...select few are able to defer the limitations of an undocumented future when they are accepted at schools like Harvard. In its efforts to recruit the best students from the nation and the world, Harvard is one of very few universities with the financial resources to offer merit-based, need-blind admissions standards for all students, including those ineligible for federal financial...
Hopefully gestures like the MFA’s inclusion of Mesoamerican and Native American works in an art museum alongside the works of Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley will help illustrate that these marginalized cultures do indeed merit appreciation and that the European masters are not the only artists entitled to aesthetic consideration. At the very least, it will present the viewer with the opportunity to experience the art of civilizations whose cultural output is traditionally relegated to the ethnography museum in order to permit an honest comparison...
...President Barack Obama unveiled proposals in January for a $90 billion bank tax designed to recoup public money used to shore up the nation's lenders. No-nonsense Sweden, meanwhile, has already implemented its own version. But amid this consensus on the need to charge banks, doubts over the merit of the schemes remain. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...immediate consequence of this achievement is that it will finally free Congress to work definitively to address other important issues. While healthcare was a critical problem that deserved the highest attention, myriad others also merit scrutiny and action. Specifically, Congress should now focus its efforts on reforming financial regulations and energy policy. As for now, Democrats on Capitol Hill can relish their historic triumph in a battle that was begun over a century ago. This legislation is a tremendous achievement for the Democrats in Congress and signifies a victory of the highest caliber for Obama’s young presidency...