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...Senator Obama’s plan, on the other hand, correctly assesses that the best way to help American families is to give tax relief to the middle and lower classes, whose spending will help to stimulate the national economy during the current downturn. It is true that some Americans??€“those making over $250,000 a year–will see their tax rates return to those of the Clinton era, but such an increase in taxation is justifiable, since the additional revenue will be used to repair the disastrous legacies of the Bush Administration...
...Conservatives try to paint the NEA (pun intended) and its benefactors as the peace, love, and naked calligraphy crowd—ridiculous, immoral, and totally out of touch with normal Americans??€”ignoring the Endowment’s bipartisan past. It was Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) who established the first arts-oriented federal advisory board, the Council of Fine Arts, and Dwight D. Eisenhower who created a national cultural center for the performing arts, which 13 years and a cultural revolution later opened its doors as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
...whose intended meaning is forgotten as the glitches emerge with every repeated viewing (Dukakis’s tank experiment that torpedoed his campaign, for example) Palin has lost control of her own significance. In the wake of news that her two-month-old wardrobe is worth more than most Americans??€™ yearly incomes and that she abused her gubernatorial powers, her honest hockey-mom façade seems to have cracked. And exposed underneath—well—there just doesn’t seem to be all that much. Sanders I. Bernstein...
Thank you President Faust. Thank you for crashing the American economy for us. It could not have been an easy decision—to put Harvard’s interests before millions of Americans??€”but you showed unflinching resolve. Thanks to your hard work in creating this financial crisis, Harvard seniors will finally start to look beyond careers in investment banking...
...adoptive Texan roots for this very reason. And his electoral success in 2004 explains how ‘narrative’ has hijacked the race in 2008. But it seems this time the stakes have been raised for the candidates. Beyond simply seeming like ‘authentic Americans??€™, they also have to highlight their encounters with regular-folk adversities and hardships; these aspects of their biographies have come to supersede all foreign affairs experience or a top-flight education.Thus, in a time when the economy is unraveling, international support is dissolving, and the average American is struggling...