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...Obama seems a more certain policymaker now, if not exactly a wonk in the Clintonian sense. He has a clearer handle on the big picture, on how various policy components fit together, and a strong sense of what his top priority would be. He wants to launch an "Apollo project" to build a new alternative-energy economy. His rationale for doing so includes some hard truths about the current economic mess: "The engine of economic growth for the past 20 years is not going to be there for the next 20. That was consumer spending. Basically, we turbocharged this economy...
Other goodies: T-Mobile's 3G network was faster and more reliable than AT&T's (Apple's carrier) in my New York City-based tests. The speakerphone is louder and clearer than the iPhone's. And the removable battery will save you money and time should it ever quit on you - instead of bringing the whole device in to be repaired, you can just swap out the battery yourself...
...said. “Knowing that their punter is back and having a second look at their unique punting style is definitely an advantage.” The Crimson’s final non-conference game comes on a weekend when the Ivy race will take clearer shape. Brown and Princeton, two of the three teams that have yet to lose an Ivy game, will face off in New Jersey, while Penn, the third squad, will host Columbia. —Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
...longer-term worries that the world is entering a recession. After starting the week with two days of remarkable gains, markets in Asia and Europe Wednesday registered moderate losses similar to those of Wall Street, which dipped 0.82% on Tuesday. Like everyone else, traders are waiting for clearer signs of what the future holds...
...helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on Nabokov’s ship—Pnin to indifference (against which he cracks), Kimbote to delusion (to which he succumbs), Humbert to lust (which drives him to kidnap and murder). The more forward motion these characters seemed to make, the clearer it became to the reader that they were stuck in the same place. But while Nabokov’s characters were ultimately the victims of their author’s mechanisms, they were also, fundamentally, the labors of a loving creator.It’s difficult to make the same...