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...Petraeus, speaking to an annual Marine Corps Association Foundation dinner on July 30, praised the leathernecks while taking tongue-in-cheek shots at both the Army and the Air Force. "A soldier is trudging through the muck in the midst of a downpour with a 60-pound rucksack on his back," Petraeus began. "'This is tough,' he thinks to himself. Just ahead of him trudges an Army Ranger with an 80-pound pack on his back. 'This is really tough,' he thinks. And ahead of him is a Marine with a 90-pound pack on, and he thinks to himself...
...really assess things" upon her arrival. Before her stint in academic management, Lapp served as the chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York. Appointed to that post by then-Governor George Pataki soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Lapp was responsible for an annual budget of $7 billion and led a five-year, $21 billion capital expansion program. Lapp graduated from Fairfield University in 1978 and went on to receive a law degree from Hofstra University...
...find your niche. But enough with the negatives—all right, maybe just one more. Don’t feel bad if you’re not inducted into the Hasty Pudding social club. Seriously. Unless your daddy was just featured on the Forbes’ annual billionaires list—in that case, do feel bad. You must have said something wrong...
That reason is our out-of-control, highest-in-the-world, wiggety-wiggety-wack health-care costs. They're gobbling one-sixth of our economy, and without reform they'll devour one-third of our economy by 2040; the average family's annual premiums are on track to exceed $45,000 in 2008 dollars. They're already destroying businesses small and gigantic; unaffordable health-care liabilities are one of the main reasons GM and Chrysler went bust. And since half of all health care is paid for with tax dollars, these exploding costs are a fiscal, as well...
Americans are suckers for a good ranking. Give people a copy of the annual U.S. News & World Report on the country's best colleges and you'll have them gloating, sulking and arguing over the results for hours. Ditto for the various lists put out by the Princeton Review. (Should Penn State really be this year's top-ranked party school? What happened, University of Florida?) (See TIME's special report: The New Battle over Financial...