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Last year, amid all this self-reflection, a resolution hit me which seemed so perfectly substantial, feasible, and important that I knew it was exactly the right kind of challenge.

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Lend Your Ears | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

So how can you change this, Secretary-designate Vilsack? Your first step should be to appoint impartial officials who will challenge the USDA’s culture of complicity. The current Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Charles F. Conner, is the former president of the Corn Refiners Association, and the agency?...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Memo to Vilsack | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

If tackling all this seems like a challenge, Mr. Vilsack, look to the President you’ll be serving. In an October interview with Time Magazine’s Joe Klein, Barack Obama commented on a recent New York Times article by Michael Pollan, the nation’s...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Memo to Vilsack | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

And so, after a morning powwow with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - she called meeting the President-elect in her office a "great honor and personal privilege" - Obama hit his day's talking points. "The reason we are here today is that the people's business can't wait," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Gets Ready for His Washington Closeup | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

In this way, the ground has been laid for the great stimulus fight of 2009. A spending bill of enormous size must be passed with the cooperation of political enemies in a compressed timetable. It is a challenge that will soon dwarf the abilities of Obama to shine in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Gets Ready for His Washington Closeup | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

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