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Obama has potholes of his own to fill. Michiganders didn't take kindly to being made the villain in Obama's oft told tale of how he had the courage to go to Detroit and say the auto industry needed to raise fuel-efficiency standards. It was an obvious way to establish his reputation as a "different kind of politician." But it didn't help his relative weakness among blue collar voters. Now Obama has to run up a healthy margin among Oakland's affluent independents and Republicans, who have been crossing over to vote Democratic in recent elections. David...
...financial crowd, this may well be--as is oft proclaimed--the worst crisis since the Great Depression. But you don't have to agree with Phil Gramm that this is a "mental recession" to acknowledge that things don't look quite so bleak beyond Wall Street--unless you're struggling to make payments on a house that's worth 30% less than the mortgage. Then you're in crisis. Most Americans aren't. The economy still seems to be growing. Job losses have been manageable. Yes, people are very unhappy about the economy. But day to day, they're more...
...Everybody is Libertarian about something in this country," Bob Barr told me over breakfast in midtown Manhattan recently. It's his best pitch, an oft-used explanation of why the Libertarian Party can leverage the country's many discontents. The strongest part of his message is the delivery. Barr is a level man with a rich, assuring voice. Even in a D.C.-standard-issue dark three-piece suit, there's something warm and tweedy about him--a perfectly calm spokesman for the often cantankerous ideas of his party...
That is worth remembering in light of oft-heard criticism that although Harvard is facing tough economic times like other colleges, other educational institutions are more deserving of contributions. “Does Harvard ‘need’ my money more than, say, a struggling black college in the South?” asks David Owen in a recent article on the Campaign in Harper’s Magazine. No—just as he points out, the Boston public school system could easily use extra cash...
...Suggesting the underlying competition with the USSR, an anonymous Hungarian student was oft-quoted in articles at the time, claiming that the Soviet education system was not better than America’s. He cited a “lack of freedom,” the necessity of keeping to “the party line,” and “the selection of university students according to social class” as flaws...