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There is something I want to say, though, about the Crimson’s current hot streak. If the team is going to keep its momentum, it has to avoid reverting to the poor third period performance that plagued the early parts of the season...
...Conan’s last few weeks, because of his fury at NBC, his jokes were bursting with the cynicism that he cautioned his followers to avoid. For example, he recently explained that as part of his severance agreement he had to “return the Etch-a-Sketch [his] contract was written on.” He also informed his viewers that they should believe NBC’s pledge to end this fiasco before the Winter Olympics because “when NBC says something, you can take that to the bank.” Furthermore, because...
Barack Obama believed in the system. At least, that is what he told America. So, who was the guy in the Oval Office behind closed curtains in secret meetings with Congressional Democrats about healthcare legislation? He chose to avoid the very system so deserving and demanding of respect. He sold out a visionary view of our government for health-care reform that actually had very little reform in it. As soon as the Senate announced the passage of the health-care bill on Dec. 24, 2009, stocks for the very industry responsible for the health-care crisis soared...
...find the right tone? How Obama needs to come off: optimistic, confident, resolute, gracious. What he has to avoid seeming: defensive, negative, churlish, sarcastic. Behind the scenes, Obama has been evincing some frustration with the media coverage of his first year in office; like most Presidents, he doesn't think he is getting enough credit for his hard work, nor enough patience for evolving efforts. But 2010 needs to be about the future, not grievances of the past - and that includes an end to blaming the Bush Administration for the problems Obama inherited...
...avert a depression; he has also bought more than $1 trillion worth of mortgage-backed securities to lower mortgage rates, boost housing prices and pull us out of recession. Now that the recession seems to be over, hawks are badgering him to start tightening the money supply to avoid inflation and an overheated economy. Bernanke's response is simple: What inflation? There's little evidence in the data, and even a cursory review of the morning papers suggests that the economy is still underheated. Bernanke repeatedly stressed that the big problem today is high unemployment, that places like Dillon...