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...Your special issue on the republicans bent over backward to present McCain as an honorable man, but the transcript of your bizarre interview, in which McCain refused to answer simple and legitimate questions, was frightening. It showed a resentful, uncommunicative and uncooperative McCain who was uncomfortable with the straight talk he used to be known for and who had a chip on his shoulder the size of a sequoia. Such a volatile temperament renders him unfit to have his finger anywhere near the button. Lee Otterholt, Laguna Beach, Calif...
...Marie C. Kodama ’09, who is taking off the semester, was spending time in her hometown of Houston when Ike struck. She said that even in her relatively undamaged neighborhood in west Houston, dozens of trees are strewn across the street, and many streetlights are bent in the wrong direction. “Almost all of Houston is congregating in the two big malls because they’re the only ones with power,” she said. Kodama said that a general feeling of frustration has taken over the city, manifesting itself in the frequent...
...anti-regulation ideological bent of the Reagan administration sped this transformation, but the Clinton years were the really interesting ones. In the aftermath of the savings and loan collapse and a banking-industry near-miss there was a flurry of activity aimed at keeping banks healthy, not by shoving them back into their New Deal box but by reasserting their central role in the financial system. Glass-Steagall repeal can best be understood as part of this effort. So was 1994 legislation allowing interstate branching. This was a bipartisan movement: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley legislation passed the Senate...
Your special issue on the Republicans bent over backward to present McCain as an honorable man, but the transcript of his bizarre interview, in which McCain refused to answer simple and legitimate questions, was frightening. It showed a resentful, uncommunicative and uncooperative McCain who was uncomfortable with the straight talk he used to be known for and who had a chip on his shoulder the size of a sequoia. Such a volatile temperament renders him unfit to have his finger anywhere near the Button. Lee Otterholt, LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF...
Your special issue on the Republicans bent over backward to present McCain as an honorable man, but the transcript of your bizarre interview, in which McCain refused to answer simple and legitimate questions, was frightening. It showed a resentful, uncommunicative and uncooperative McCain who was uncomfortable with the straight talk he used to be known for and who had a chip on his shoulder the size of a sequoia. Such a volatile temperament renders him unfit to have his finger anywhere near the Button. Lee Otterholt, LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF...