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...clean up Brazilian politics, and with two years to go--rules forbid him to seek a third consecutive term--he'll have to start wielding the broom vigorously. The education system, despite increased funding and access, is still an embarrassment: Brazilian students continue to score at the bottom on international math and reading tests. Taxes are exorbitant, Amazon deforestation is rising again, and Brazil has one of the world's most wasteful public bureaucracies. To fix all those problems in two years would require much more divine intervention...
...underlies the financial meltdown in the first place. At every level of American life - from the struggling homeowner who can't afford his mortgage to the failing investment banks that can't meet their collateral requirements to the Federal Government, which can't prop up the drooping dollar - the bottom line is that we've borrowed too much money. We're all over-leveraged...
Akpan started the Crimson off on a positive note with an early fierce charge toward the goal at 8:18. He effortlessly twisted and maneuvered through the opposition’s defensive midfielders and fullbacks with reckless ease, chipping a perfect goal into the bottom right corner...
...don’t like the word ‘cuts,’” Bailey said. “There has been no decision to cut or reduce services. Quite frankly, the bottom line is that we are getting paid less for the services we deliver...
...strangest election that I’ve ever seen,” Castellanos said, citing the unprecedented media scrutiny and sharp turns that have marked both the primary and general elections. Castellanos, an émigré from Cuba and an IOP Fellow this semester, praised the bottom-up organization of the Obama campaign and its effectiveness in mobilizing support. He dubbed Obama’s grassroots call for change a “secular religion.” But the greatest factor in Obama’s favor, Castellanos said, is the financial crisis that has swept Wall Street...