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...Noticeably absent from this explanation of the recession is any mention of Bush’s tax policy, health-care plans, climate-change proposals, education programs, or foreign policy. Reading The Crimson, however, you’d think the president’s policies broke the economy by themselves. Bush-hating revisionists use the unpopularity of our 43rd president to discredit conservative policies in general. But Bush’s failure to regulate financial and housing markets should not be confused with his success in economic growth, trade, education, and health care...

Author: By Colin J. Motley | Title: Deconstructing Deregulation | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...Nikkei Brazilians, Peruvians and others who have lost their jobs go home, what will Japan do? Last week, Prime Minister Taro Aso unveiled a long-term growth strategy to create millions of jobs and add $1.2 trillion to GDP by 2020. But the discussion of immigration reform is notoriously absent in Japan, and reaching a sensible policy for foreign workers has hardly got under way. Encouraging those foreigners who would actually like to stay in Japan to leave seems a funny place to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan to Immigrants: Thanks, But You Can Go Home Now | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...hardest money to raise in politics," says former Federal Election Commission (FEC) chairman Robert Lenhard. Clinton's operation in particular relied heavily on traditional big donors, most of whom maxed out during the campaign on the amount they were legally allowed to give. Meanwhile, amid hard economic times - and absent the political intensity of a hard-fought campaign - it is more difficult to get small donors to open their checkbooks. Still, Clinton is determined to clear her balance sheet. "She feels a real moral obligation to pay off the debt," says Begala, "to pay off every last nickel to everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Clinton's Campaign Pay Mark Penn? | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...runs itself out of the inning. The runner on first takes off on a 3-2 count and Rogers instinctively, and mistakenly covers second, this allows BC's Lawrence to sneak the ball through the hole at short and get the runner over to third. But an absent-minded Lawrence inexplicably takes off for second and gets gunned down easily by Jon Roberts...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LIVE BLOG: Baseball Beanpot - Harvard vs. BC at Fenway Park | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...behind Yale, Penn, Columbia, and Princeton. “We weren’t just competing with Yale.” Shuman continued. “Everything is preparation for the Ivy League Championship, and obviously we need to improve to do well in that.” Noticeably absent from Harvard’s weekend roster was freshman phenom Mark Pollak, who got the week off so he could have a free weekend—amidst the heavy, weekly schedule of golf’s spring season—to focus on his academics. “Coach told...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rain Dampens Weekend Run At Ivy Opponents | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

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