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...move in China seems to be relentlessly toward a free market economy. Because China has a rich treasury, it can afford to support a rotation to privatization without the immediate concern that its government will be troubled by huge deficits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading Places: China and the U.S. | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

More help for small-business owners. Everything we can do to help them keep people employed is one less person getting an unemployment check, one less person needing help affording their health-care coverage, one more person that can afford to pay their mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bobby Jindal | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...think the Republican Party needs to fundamentally change what it stands for, but it needs to take those principles and apply them. For example, everybody should be able to afford high-quality health care, but we should want that to be between a patient and their doctor, not a bureaucrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bobby Jindal | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...there, the Crimson must take care of business tomorrow. With so much on the line, Harvard can’t afford to take the Engineers for granted...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Looks To Repeat as ECAC Champs | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...religion. In 1947 the nation was born as an Islamic state, a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India, newly liberated from colonial rule. Yet 60-odd years later, even as contraband Johnny Walker is liberally poured into the glasses of those who can afford it, Shari'a, or Islamic law, is declared in a district not far from the capital as a concession to the Taliban. Islam no longer unites; it divides. In its place rises a new unifier: cricket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Cricket Attack: A Blow to the National Psyche | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

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