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Stand-up comics call it a "tough crowd," but then tough crowds are part of their business. It's a whole other matter to be met with cold stares when you are the President of the United States, talking in prime time before a joint session of Congress, when your party controls both chambers by historic margins. (Read "Obama's State of the Union Address: Five Ways to Judge Its Success...
...Inside the chamber, the GOP did away with the pranks and gimmicks they displayed the last time Obama addressed a joint session. Eschewing paper signs or rude interruptions, they seemed content to pass the time with the sort of cool confidence that accompanies a sense of ascendancy. House minority leader John Boehner, bronzed and cocky, kept making faces and spreading his hands in disbelief at Obama's applause lines. (See Barack Obama's top 10 sound bites...
...Although it was his first official State of the Union address, it was the third time that Obama had addressed a joint session of Congress in prime time. The first, in February 2009, was an introduction, a statement of goals and principles. The second, in September, was a defensive play, an attempt to reclaim the high ground on health care, which had begun to slip away. This third time was a declaration of his having survived his first serious setback and of his determination to keep trying...
Stiglitz participated in a question-and-answer session with J. Cullen Murphy Jr., the editor-at-large at Vanity Fair, as part of a book tour promoting his recent release on the financial crisis titled “Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy...
Earlier in the day, the delegates split up into small groups to hone in on key recommendations from the December session. The delegates were then divided into action-specific groups—focusing on areas such as energy waste, solar power, forestry, and accounting methods—to brainstorm further steps Cambridge residents could take...