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...Plan of attack: Whatever its other challenges, the new economic team already has one huge advantage: economists from both right and left now agree that a massive stimulus measure is needed--and soon. The éminence grise of Republican economic advisers, Harvard's Martin Feldstein, raised some eyebrows in October by saying the stimulus package might need to be as big as $300 billion. Already that seems timid. Jan Hatzius, chief economist for Goldman Sachs, is telling clients he expects Obama's stimulus package to be $400 billion to $500 billion a year in order to compensate for a retrenchment...
...This is as ugly as it gets.' REPRESENTATIVE PETE HOEKSTRA, of the House Intelligence Committee, calling for an investigation into the cia's participation in and alleged cover-up of a 2001 attack on a U.S. missionary plane in Peru...
...This whole mess began in the first place, we're told, because of too little government. Those crafty capitalists on Wall Street should have had a heavier dose of regulation to keep them in line. Even the whole concept of free, liberal economies has come under attack. Some observers have gone so far as to praise state-guided economies, like those of China or the Gulf emirates, where the government owns or controls large swaths of the economy, as superior to their laissez-faire counterparts. Columnist Joshua Kurlantzick wrote that these countries "have proven so successful that even before...
Junior guard Jeremy Lin notched a career high 30 points as the Crimson basketball team beat Holy Cross for the first time in three years. Harvard aggressively attacked the hoop the entire game to win its fourth home opener in a row, as the Crusaders fell 69-59 to the Crimson last night at Lavietes Pavilion.Lin shot 9-15 from the field and picked up nine rebounds and four steals to go along with his barrage of points. It was the second year in a row he set a career high in points in the home opener?...
...strengthen the case against Israel invading Gaza, U.S. officials turned to Jordan's King Abdullah for help in stemming the rocket attacks from Gaza, according to knowledgeable Palestinian and Jordanian officials. Because the U.S. has avoided direct talks with the militant Hamas movement, which runs Gaza but which the U.S. deems a terrorist organization, Abdullah was approached to act as a go-between, these sources told TIME. The Jordanian monarch complied with the U.S. request and last week dispatched a senior intelligence officer to Damascus to warn exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal that Gaza was in danger of an Israeli...