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SYMBOLISM VS. REALITY...
David Brooks is not the first to lay out forks in the road during the health-care debate. Other false dichotomies have been: Growth vs. equity, risk vs. safety, innovation vs. stagnation. Yet these kinds of approaches are not only invalid but are also incredibly, well, unhealthful...
Perhaps worst of all, the “vitality vs. security” argument masks a certain, purposeful interdependence in America, especially between generations. Democracy works on the premise that the social contract spans eras. Today’s young provide some protection for those who sacrificed in the past, and today’s elderly maintain a duty of active stewardship for those who will come in the future. There are live wires between us, and to describe the American contract of caring for citizens of other generations as a mere siphoning process, as Brooks does, is to cheapen...
...slashing. "You clearly aren't going to see the kind of discounting that you saw last year," says Stephen Sadove, chairman and chief executive of Saks Inc. Wayne Hood, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, agrees. "We're expecting 50% [markdowns] to be kind of the norm this year vs. maybe 75% last year," he says. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
Harvard’s green efforts at the Harvard vs. Princeton football game in October landed it in third place in the 2009 Game Day Challenge sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, marking a growing partnership between the athletics center and sustainability advocates at Harvard...