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...complete the reversal of fortunes, Democrats have picked up a Republican strategy circa 2004: accuse the opposition of being obstructionist. "Because of the obstructionism of the Republicans in the United States Senate, I'm not happy with Congress, either," Pelosi told reporters at a press conference highlighting Democratic achievements last week. "I believe that our record will come across to the American people as we're able to pass legislation into law or? tell the American people as to why that hasn't happened...
...mind of America had better know baseball." The citizens of NASCAR Nation would, today, reasonably argue with that. Please quote me no Yankee Stadium attendance figures; baseball at present is a disgrace--the subject of government inquiries, an industry as rife with known and suspected cheaters as Wall Street circa 2000. Is this the heart and mind of America? Maybe it is, but not as we'd like...
...Economy at the KSG, wrote on his blog that Zoellick’s belief in free trade may limit his ability to aid developing nations. “[Zoellick’s] take on the reforms needed by developing countries remains, as far as I can tell, quite conventional, circa 1980, with a splash of ‘augmented’ Washington Consensus thinking added in,” he wrote. “One needs to go beyond these old-fashioned ideas that pit states against markets if one wants to make progress against global poverty...
...bunch of people sitting in a club, like getting into the poetry, or like, ‘Yeah, I dig you’—that doesn’t do anything for me anymore.” That was Patti Smith in a radio interview circa 1976. She was a woman. She was confrontational. And she was the great hope of her generation...
Meanwhile, the Albright-Knox auctions will continue over the next several weeks. At least some of what's sold in them will go back up on public display, though not in Buffalo. The buyer of a circa 10th century granite statue of the Hindu god Shiva that went for just over $4 million was the Cleveland Museum of Art, which, unlike the Albright-Knox, already has a substantial Asian collection. But much of the rest will disappear into the possession of dealers and private collectors. In the way of such things, in due time some of it may well make...