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...candidate's prospects, completely apart from money's traditional role as a way to buy things. Candidates raise money not to purchase TV time and hire political consultants. They raise money to prove that they can raise money. All the major candidates have rejected federal subsidies in order to avoid the contribution limits that go with them. This includes McCain, whose name is on McCain-Feingold, the most recent failed attempt to curb money's role in politics. When the press started reporting that his campaign was in trouble, McCain hired a major corporate lobbyist as his finance chairman...
...wrote, “When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his powers as commander in chief.” Savage later reported on Bush’s use of another statement to avoid certain requirements in the USA Patriot Act. His April 30, 2006 story in the Globe reported, “President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed...
...acutely distressed. Last summer the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on suicide prevention among college students, issued intervention guidelines that covered, for example, contacting parents against a student's wishes. The foundation, co-founded by a retired pharmaceutical executive after his son committed suicide, recommended that colleges avoid policies that either require or prohibit calling parents when a student seems acutely distressed. Why? Because schools need wiggle room and because sometimes families can be a big part of a student's problems...
...Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics, on Thursday addressed the creeping fears that the Chinese economy might be overheating: "One very important lesson we have learned is not to make excessively large policy adjustments, but rather to take small, micro steps, and fine-tune them. The aim is to avoid a hard landing of the economy," Li said...
...important that China avoid a "hard landing,? and how serious is the risk that it might not? The answer to the first question is easy: the growth of the global economy, outside of the United States, has rarely been stronger than it is now, and China is a big part of that story. It's true that China is racking up huge trade . surpluses with the United States (and Europe), and will continue to do so far into the future. But many companies in many industries have hitched themselves to China's extraordinary growth, and have made bets...