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Obama's efforts to change us carry a clear political risk. Republicans already portray him as a nanny-state scold, an élitist Big Brother lecturing us about inflating our tires and reading to our kids. We elected a President, not a life coach, and we might not like elected officials' challenging our right to be couch potatoes. Obama's aides seem to favor nudges that preserve free choice over heavy-handed regulation, an approach Thaler and Sunstein, the co-authors of Nudge, call "libertarian paternalism." But it's still paternalism, and Sunstein will have the power...
...college-only website are no longer permissible now that Mom’s looking over your shoulder and companies and schools are researching profiles. Profiles without some degree of self-censorship are becoming increasingly rare, but some people still aren’t cottoning on; when my brother interviewed a few prospective Harvard freshmen this year, he was surprised to see that they hadn’t bothered to restrict access to their profile, allowing him full view of information that did not reflect well upon them...
...turn, left legacies at odds with each other. The older son Rajiv, succeeded his mother as prime minister shortly after she was assassinated in 1984. Rajiv was later murdered in a 1994 terrorist bombing and his Italian-born widow, Sonia, now leads the ruling Congress Party. Rajiv's younger brother, Sanjay, however, had been their mother Indira's favorite and had been viewed as her heir apparent until his sudden death in a plane crash in 1980. Sanjay's widow Maneka is now Sonia Gandhi's implacable enemy. Maneka and her son Varun are now members of the Hindu nationalist...
...Gandhi, thus attaching prestige to a mixed marriage many Hindus would not have approved of. Priyanka Gandhi, Sonia's daughter, said that her cousin Varun's comments were against the traditions her family had "lived and died for." There might have been a bigger political spectacle if Priyanka's brother Rahul had been entered as a possible Congress candidate in the coming elections, but their mother nixed that suggestion. (See pictures of Sonia Gandhi's India...
...will be joining his brother Harold H. Koh ’75—a former dean of Yale Law School who was chosen as Legal Adviser to the State Department last week— in Washington...