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...rate reached 8.1 percent, a figure not seen in a quarter-century. Nor has the Obama administration been idle. On Feb. 17, the president signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which calls for the government to spend $789 billion over the next two years in an attempt to revive the flagging economy...
...attempt to close America’s borders been limited to the labor market. Initial versions of the stimulus package that underwent congressional and international scrutiny would have forced all infrastructure projects receiving money from the federal government to “buy American,” using only American steel in the construction of roads and bridges. Thankfully, this provision did not make it into the final bill that was signed into law. But the “Buy American” controversy is indicative of a turn toward a protectionist trade agenda, especially in the anti-immigrant lobbies...
...Asian Sensation," held this Friday, marked Harvard's first attempt to uncover the Zoolander of the far East...
Even worse than the incessant expression of inane private thoughts is the attempt to express complex private emotions in Facebook’s limited text boxes. Publicly paraded sentiments are inevitably devalued as a result of their superficial context. This inappropriateness is most apparent when the most personal emotions, such as those associated with death, begin to decorate public forums. When someone with a Facebook dies, his or her profile often remains active, either to commemorate that person’s life or because the family does not have the legal rights to close it. Messages such...
...severe," meaning an attack was regarded as highly likely. This followed a spate of planned attacks which were intercepted by police, including a car bomb left in a County Down town last month. An earlier MI5 report in January suggested that dissidents may broaden their terror campaigns and attempt attacks on large-scale events such as the 2012 Olympics in London...