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Some of us, of course, will believe that change when we see it. Maybe we're the ones Obama had in mind when he said, "What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them." Whether Obama can affect that shift--and where those tectonic plates carry him, and us--is the next big story of our frightened, giddy culture...
...Harvard’s Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt declined to comment on application numbers and how the financial crisis might affect Ph.D. admissions...
...Except for China and India, every major national economy in the world now readily admits that it is in the midst of GDP contraction. The resulting slowdown in global trade will certainly affect China seriously, as well, and sooner than most analysts think. A deep recession in China may be only a quarter away...
...Economic factors may affect demand greatly, and an increasing number of students in the next decade and beyond will come from less affluent families who will need to be encouraged to consider higher education,” Fitzsimmons told the Gazette. “Unless we are successful in reaching out to them, our nation will not realize its full potential...
...does the President's personality or the country's mood affect the parade? Take Dwight Eisenhower. He was a military man with a no-nonsense personality, so it was a very conservative parade. Basically, he said, "Look, each state will be limited - one float, one band and one military unit, and that's it. No big deal." And it wasn't. The parade took just two hours...