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...have interest in returning to Washington professionally? LHS: Right now, I’m looking forward to doing what I haven’t really had a chance to do in 15 years, between jobs in Washington and here at Harvard—to reflect, to write, and to speak freely, unencumbered by any institutional responsibility...
...Maybe if it was a reporter purporting to write a full and complete news account of the entire incident it would be suspicious to drop the methamphetamine aspect, but it would be silly in the context of my book to mention every detail of how Ashley Smith dealt with a hardened killer from whom she was fighting for her life. What transformed her kidnapper was not meth, but Christian love...
...write on page 9, "Today's worship of physical perfection is more grotesque than Hitler's notion of the Aryan." But then on page 130, you joke that "The only sort of authority Cindy Sheehan has is the uncanny ability to demonstrate, by example, what body types should avoid wearing shorts in public." So which is it: are we allowed to joke about physical imperfections or is it grotesque...
...rise in the median marriage age and the advent of the birth control pill mean that women expect to spend more years in the workforce. In college, women are “no longer...majoring in a handful of female-intensive fields,” Goldin and Katz write. Women are increasingly majoring in the same subjects as men as females realize they’ll need to gain workforce skills.But the changes start well before college. As a result of their new expectations, females are taking more math and science courses in high school, because they know these skills...
...looking at if you were spending $2 trillion?...Are we getting good value for that investment?” Perhaps if members of Congress had been given a similar cost estimate of the conflict before the nation went to war, they might have acted differently, Bilmes and Stiglitz write in their paper. “I think it’s unacceptable to be spending this much money on Iraq without greater accountability for the money and greater certainty that the benefit is worthwhile,” Bilmes says. The $2-trillion sum is so huge it is often hard...