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What will be the global impact of how the U.S. auto industry's woes are handled? The U.S. will be setting the tone for the global industry. Any [government] support that will happen will be mirrored in other regions. This is not only a U.S. problem...
...feminine. While there has been no organized effort to attract more female students into computer science at Harvard, Malan said he openly acknowledged the gender imbalance in his course on the first day of the semester, and encouraged female students to enroll anyway. “I hope the problem begins to chip away at itself,” he said. “As numbers begin to equalize, the perspective will change...
...urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop the dramatic decay of cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Why? Largely because of cheap land and interstate highway access to new suburban communities. In other words, non-urban alternatives dictated an urban problem...
...major problem with the gay rights movement is that it simultaneously champions democratic government and rejects it. The movement views marriage as a civic institution rather than a religious one (this is one distinction between marriages and civil unions), but only so long as government functions from a pro-gay marriage position. Once the cogs of government have turned to an anti-gay marriage slant, gay rights activists cease to be tolerant of the democratic process. Cue the banners decrying opponents as hateful and intolerant. Is this unfortunate divide what activists seek? Certainly that sort of culture of separatist intolerance...
...George W. Bush's nominee for Homeland Security Secretary in 2004 - are pretty obviously the inspirations for this clause, as both scandals severely muddled the respective Presidents' transition plans. Nevertheless, the verdict on this question is mixed. "I don't want somebody disqualified who can help solve the economic problem because they didn't pay the dog-sitter's Social Security," argued former Congressman John Kasich in a Nov. 14 interview with Fox News...