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...pulled off other unlikely feats. When he was first elected in 2002, many feared that Lula and his leftist Workers' Party would trash Brazil's emerging economy by pursuing socialist policies. Instead, Lula shrewdly embraced fiscal sobriety, strengthening Brazil's currency, the real, and reforming a bloated civil service pension system. Those policies and a windfall in commodities fueled a boom--the economy will grow 5% or more again this year, and inflation is historically low. Even his rivals acknowledge that despite his firebrand image, Lula has been a deft political operator. "The danger with Lula is that...
...would run out and find another doctor,” Fryer said in an interview with The New York Times. “Somehow, in education, that approach is O.K.”But at least one scholar in the field, Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, questioned Fryer’s failure to acknowledge existing education research efforts.“What worries me about some of the public statements by Prof. Fryer is the kind of sloppy over-generalizations, lack of attentiveness to other research, and confidence that he can understand the core...
...Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe,” by Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington.It’s a form of political intellectual masturbation, a primal scream meant to release the pent-up frustrations of the supposedly civilized Beltway society. Like all fetishes, it has its origins in some formative event: the rise and fall of Clintonian politics.In 1992, a newly aggressive stance in Democratic campaigning made the party’s future seem rosy. Bill Clinton’s electoral victory had begun to transcend the political...
...first started the original Club 47, we had a lot of Harvard students and Harvard graduates who were involved,” executive director Dan Hogan says. The club also drew singers from across the nation, including many musicians from the Deep South, who brought a new perspective on civil rights to the students during the turbulent ’60s. Siggins Smith was deeply affected by the stories the singers carried with them from the South, noting that the audience at Club 47 revered them in a time when race-based inequalities prevented many blues singers from getting opportunities...
...feel quite confident, because these reforms were demanded by the civil society, and by the political parties. I do hope that the next government and the governments thereafter will strengthen these reforms...