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This year the candidates remain as cautious as ever--both campaigns rejected invitations to attend a Google-YouTube forum in New Orleans--and perhaps rightly so. An estimated 65 million Americans will watch Barack Obama and John McCain duel for the first time on Sept. 26, many of whom will be documenting, dissecting and live-blogging their every move. Debates have been called the political version of the Indianapolis Speedway; most viewers tune in to watch the candidates crash and burn. Or, at the very least, break a sweat...
...contrast, the lifetime chance that a woman will die in childbirth is about 1 in 4,800; in Britain, 1 in 8,200; and in Sweden, 1 in 17,400. Deaths are heavily weighted to the poorest and most isolated in each country, which means that many politicians remain largely ignorant of the scale of the tragedy. "Often the people in the cities do not know what is happening in their own rural areas," says Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and patron of the White Ribbon Alliance, a global advocacy organization that works with governments...
Obama's case against panic goes like this: Bush is the least popular President in modern history, and McCain was on TV bragging during the Republican primary that he voted with Bush over 90% of the time. The economy is tanking, and McCain is still insisting that the fundamentals remain strong; he's also been a consistent vote against financial regulation, a strong supporter of investing Social Security benefits in the stock market and a recent convert to the Bush tax cuts. Voters prefer Obama's positions to McCain's on almost every major policy issue, and the Republican brand...
...deal are vague, it raises hope for stability in a country where inflation is estimated at more than 11 million percent, half the population is malnourished and 8 out of 10 people are unemployed and live on less than $2 a day. Western economic sanctions on the country remain in place...
...Despite the OCS’s legitimate efforts to expand their offerings this year, they remain overwhelmingly and unfortunately centered around finance and consulting. The influx of Harvard grads to the finance and consulting sectors is not the fault of OCS alone, but the way that OCS presents these sectors certainly contributes to their popularity. Admittedly, some students are attracted to banking and consulting jobs for reasons outside of OCS’s control. These jobs have “prestige,” the promise of a large salary, and some students are genuinely interested in the field. Unquestionably...