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...allowed to do. That worked well for several decades but proved incapable of withstanding the rise of inflation and global competition--not to mention deregulation proponents--in the 1970s. Since then, the priority among regulators and politicians has been to try to manage risk but to by all means avoid thwarting innovation. "I do not believe that government should stand in the way of innovation or turn back the clock to an older era of regulation" is how Obama put it in his big speech on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Back the Flood | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...this season. Personally, I’m excited about “Blasted.” It’s going to be crazy.After this production is over, Hirschberg is going to try not to fail her classes. She sees her summer break as the last time she can avoid worrying about her future.I think I’m going to take my savings and go to Europe. I’ll probably end up seeing lots of plays in an English-speaking theater. I love working in the theater. A couple of summers ago I had an all-summer...

Author: By Roy Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Laura C. Hirschberg '09 | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...change happened quietly in May 2006, but only became public this week in an AP dispatch from Baghdad) suggests it helps marriages and morale - and maybe even keeps those sharing a private trailer in uniform longer. It's just one example of a kinder, gentler military's concern to avoid driving soldiers out of uniform by burdening them and their families with rules ill-suited to 21st century warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War Machine for the Whole Family | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...very high.” The administrators had divergent views on the issue of applicant angst: Fitzsimmons emphasized the Admissions Office’s accessibility as a bulwark against stress, while Pilbeam said that the strains of the admissions process are impossible to avoid. “How could it be made less stressful? We’ll still have approximately the same number of new places, and...my guess is that the number of qualified applicants will stay the same, if not increase,” Pilbeam said in an e-mail. “So there?...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ranked As Students’ 1st Choice for College | 4/1/2008 | See Source »

...Putin may have a compromise up his sleeve: If Russia's priority is to avoid Ukraine and Georgia being drawn into the NATO fold, a concession on the missile defense system may be part of the quid pro quo envisaged by the Russian president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Still a Sore Point With Putin | 4/1/2008 | See Source »

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