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Still, the White House and Republicans criticized the Democratic proposal late Monday, saying it didn't go far enough in requiring long-term viability plans from companies that they view as a bad investment. "We cannot expose the taxpayers to new burdens without the promise of avoiding in the future the same mistakes that created these problems in the first place," said Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. "This is the principle that should guide all of us in this week's negotiations, and I'm confident it will guide Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Congress Pass an Auto Bailout Bill Nobody Likes? | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...Cardoso years also show us that one cannot modernize the country alone and all at once. The PF was dishearteningly quiet in that period. The Prosecutor General was mockingly dubbed the Archivist General in critical opinion articles, so many were the cases supposedly locked away in drawers. The Dantas case, however, makes it clear that this has changed under Lula. The PF has been more active than ever...

Author: By Flavio S. Campos | Title: BRIC Starts with B | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...Menand said that the proposal would backfire if students cannot take the “common-ground” courses until declaring their concentration their sophomore year, forcing them to jump into 100-level department courses as a gateway into the concentration...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: English Professors Discuss Curriculum | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...result of this miscommunication, and, for Gladwell, the reason was clear. “There was a social breakdown...It was a symptom of a culture’s inability to allow subordinates to question their superiors,” he said. “This plane crash cannot be understood just on the basis of the individual, it has to be understood as part of a much larger cultural context.” In “Outliers,” Gladwell reiterates this point, using anecdotes to argue that culture can effect catastrophes and create superstars?...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gladwell Regales Crowd With Gripping Disaster | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...murders of 17 innocent Iraqis on a drive through Baghdad’s Nisoor Square, company spokespeople and the Pentagon have endlessly reminded the American public of the special exigencies of war, and the vital role that entities like Blackwater have in filling the gaps that an overstretched military cannot plug...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Hired Guns | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

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