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...suburbs is happening at the same time as the 19th century Industrial Revolution that lured people from the farm to the cities, and also as Progressive Era efforts to rein in the worst abuses of capitalism take shape. I asked Guo if he agreed. He nodded, but added a caveat: "What's different about China is the sheer scale of things. The simple fact is there are still 800-900 million people living in poor, agricultural provinces. That's about three times the population of the United States...
...what is not often included in such lessons is a crucial caveat to the separation of powers: the presidential signing statement. Thanks to the burgeoning use of signing statements—by which the president instructs the executive branch to effectively ignore some parts of a bill—our carefully crafted system is being systematically undermined. Indeed, President George W. Bush has frequently used the practice of signing statements to bypass laws throughout his term, a practice that went virtually unnoticed for five years...
...first place in the Ivy League tonight, so mission accomplished,” Murphy said. “We’re a type of team where our kids play extremely hard and we don’t make mistakes...We feel like we could beat anybody. But, the caveat to that is we have to be a mistake-free football team to do it.”—Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
...into the season, still waiting for that pristine game to happen. According to head coach Tim Murphy, it’s only a matter of time before it does. “We feel like we could beat anybody,” he said. “But, the caveat to that is we have to be a mistake-free football team to do it. We’re not a dominant football team. We had too many penalties today, and that’s the thing that has to be addressed first...
...Kicking Blackwater out of Iraq, as Prime Minister Maliki suggested, buys the Administration nothing. Blackwater has a cowboy reputation, but the team that pulled the trigger Sunday more than likely acted within the rules of engagement. With the caveat that first reports from the field are usually wrong, what apparently happened was that mortar rounds landed in the vicinity of the convoy. The Blackwater shooters assumed they were under attack. When a car bore down on the convoy, they made a second wrong assumption: a suicide bomber was behind the wheel. Things happened fast, and the Blackwater team fired...