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...first comprehensive account of this vast operation in 20 years. It's an imposing volume: Beevor, author of The Fall of Berlin 1945 and Stalingrad, deftly marshals vast tranches of information with his customary unflappability. Just crossing the English Channel involved assembling almost 5,000 vessels, the largest fleet in history. Although Beevor had access to a great deal of new material, there are no major revelations in D-Day. But it contains some surprises...
...right here? Well, first, the Republican argument that the stimulus is a bust because jobs have been lost fails a basic logic test. After last fall's global financial shock, the job market was going to be thrown for a loss no matter what. The issue is whether the number of job losses is greater or lesser than it would have been in the absence of the stimulus. "You can't answer these questions without a compared-to-what," says Jared Bernstein, economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, who is overseeing the stimulus. "We can have good arguments about...
...rough baseline from a conversation at the height of last fall's financial panic with Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is an expert on the Great Depression. "I doubt that we'll be able to avoid double-digit unemployment," he told me. "But I'm still confident we can avoid 24% unemployment like...
...This was a good last competition in the fall before we start working individually for conference,” Fish said. “And so far, we like what...
...when someone says Boston is the cleaner city and can’t go to ‘Nochs without saying, “You know the best place for pizza is really New York,” then you should probably be voting in the mayoral election this fall. Along the same lines, anyone who cares about their hometown can best demonstrate this by helping to decide its future. It’s a right that’s valuable, and one we give up too easily...