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...Asked to take a leap of faith regarding a dizzyingly complex problem, a critical mass of voters refused to trust their leaders, turning down the medicine that was offered. And so the politicians who are most exposed to popular whims have run for cover. With an election on the horizon, 95 House Democrats and 133 House Republicans opposed the bill. Some portion voted no for clearly ideological reasons. But many more were simply doing what politicians do - responding to the will of the people...
...Silverman, if you want to hear an album with 6 breakup songs. A lot of people didn't notice it at the time, but listen to the lyrics. I would have heard that and gone, "There's this big glowing dedication to this guy's wife on the cover, but listen to the center of it, there's something going on here...
...here too, Spain's regulators have encouraged sensible behavior. For years, banks have been required to put aside cash to cover expected future losses, not actual ones. The Bank of Spain "thought that in the good times it makes sense to build a cushion for the bad times," says Ramirez. So while Spain enters a downturn "a significant portion of the potential deterioration [for banks] will be covered by these provisions." There are no guarantees, of course, for Santander or anyone else, in today's parlous international environment. But for now, at least, Spain offers a lesson in prudence through...
...beautiful weekend wasn’t it?Cambridge gave us all the best parts of autumn: the freezing cold rain, muddy tracks, continual cloud cover. It just felt so unbelievably horrible to be outside. Yay!Thank goodness for football. Man, without that old pigskin on the old telly, I would have been so bummed. Like, imagine the waves swelling really high, but you just broke your board yesterday on some crunchy rocks. Bro, that bummed.But last weekend was different. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the debate hangover, but Saturday was ugly. The top-25 saw upsets...
...During our interview, I asked Michelle what accounts for the discrepancy between the admiration she inspires among such voters and the kind of blogosphere and talk-radio slurs that prompted the New Yorker, even if in jest, to run its notorious cover cartoon of her standing with her husband in the Oval Office, sporting an Afro and an AK-47. "I've realized that there are two conversations that go on," she said. "There's one at the punditry level - the polls, the writers, the folks in the know, they have one set of conversations - and then there's what...