Word: columnizing
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...Frugal Life I commend Nancy Gibbs for using her column to state what we are unlikely to hear from any elected official: that thrift is an important virtue and that our failure to practice it has helped bring on the current economic collapse [Oct. 13]. Those who lived through the Great Depression endured a scare that prompted them to scrimp and save, something the current generation does not do. Now Americans generally believe they are entitled to whatever they want without regard to whether they can afford it. The list of what we have come to consider necessities would stun...
...otherwise excellent column, Klein made a significant omission. The reason employer-based insurance is failing is not that employees fail to act in their enlightened self-interest or that employers are "slouching away from that responsibility." Costs have risen to the point that most employers cannot afford to provide insurance, and individuals cannot come up with the $27,000 a family must pay on average for annual coverage. The only long-term solution is to eliminate insurance companies through a national single-payer health plan, or "Medicare for all." Without the profit motive and with Medicare's demonstrated efficiency, enough...
...Spring of 2006, Joe Klein wrote a column for us titled "Barack Obama Isn't Not Running for President," in which Joe basically predicted that the first-term Senator would throw his hat in the ring. In October of that year, we put Joe's story about Obama on the cover and called it "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President." This was long before many people even gave the first-term Chicago Senator a chance to win the Democratic nomination. Joe has been tracking every step of Obama's journey and marking the Senator's evolution along...
...homework for this column, I gave in and had a massage. I am not sure if it was the boost in neuro-transmitters or just the relief of some pretty sore muscles, but I suspect I'll be coming back for more...
...Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...