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This week's moves fit the pattern. But they also show just how far the crisis has spread. The decision to shore up commercial paper will allow companies that are unable to borrow money from either the shadow or the real banking system to have access to the lender of last resort (the government), ensuring that credit still moves in the system - hopefully. And the $700 million program Paulson is steaming ahead with will allow for the clearing of bad loans, and inevitably the orderly failure of companies that invested too heavily in them...
...think they’re all unique. We have the beginnings of structure, of institution, which would allow the divisions to play out politically. But what is being played out in the institution is quite a dangerous energy on the streets. What you want, if possible, is some institutional shape that allows dangerous voltage to enter and work and drive the institution. It doesn’t mean that sectarianism or opposition has gone away in Northern Ireland; it means that there’s a kind of future-seeking possibility in the institution...
...first founders of the postmodern school of poetry known in the United States as the Language poets. Much of her original works of the 1970s period, including “Extremities” (1978) and “The Invention of Hunger” (1979), strove to allow the reader to create a personalized experience through verse. Even though her poetry addresses different topics now, many of the more recent poems shared at the reading had this same element. “I now have a son in his 20s, but when he was younger I ended up watching cartoons...
It’s unclear what is most offensive about this troubling trend: the fact that they serve no function (they neither block UV rays nor allow effective vision) or that you have to jump continuously to see the loser next to you at a party...
...addition, all states should take more dramatic measures to loosen restrictions on voting by absentee ballot. A few states already allow any citizen, regardless of his or her residence, to vote by mail, and these measures have been met by marked upswings in participation...