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...opposed to experience. She has never been an executive decision maker, but she is solid as granite and righteous as a bran muffin. She isn't going to go all crazy or extreme on us, which is a relief after George W. Bush. She is, for the moment, the default position in the Democratic race...
...feathers even within the couple's Peronist party and is seen by observers as a more temperamental and radical politician than her husband. President Kirchner, on the other hand, is a mild and soft-spoken operator who rescued Argentina from the agonizing economic crisis that followed the country's default on its foreign debt in late 2001. Assuming office in 2003, President Kirchner broke with traditional free-market economic recipes, settled the country's debt with the International Monetary Fund and ushered in a recovery that has kept his popularity rating at an unusually high level - at more than...
...Duhamel does not believe the stronger than expected showing by the Socialists in this second round of voting diminishes Sarkozy's mandate. "The good news for the Socialists is they're really the only party on the left still standing anymore, and could by default become the party all leftist band around to mount a counter-offensive," Duhamel says. "The bad news is the Socialists have refused to regroup, reform, and put internal rivalries past them for years now, and only have two years ahead of the next [national] election to pull that off." That electoral test will...
...divorced fathers lose contact with their kids within a few years. By the end of 10 years, as many as two-thirds of them have drifted out of their children's lives. According to a 1994 study by the Children's Defense Fund, men are more likely to default on a child-support payment (49%) than a used-car payment (3%). Even fathers in intact families spend a lot less time focused on their kids than they think: in the U.S. fathers average less than an hour a day (up from 20 minutes a few decades ago), usually squeezed...
...humanities only to replace departing faculty. The large number of students concentrating in the social sciences, however, means that Harvard needs more social science teachers. We hope Smith balances FAS’ research priorities and teaching needs and does not give all new appointments to the sciences by default. One promising solution to solving the teaching shortage may be to get social scientists from other faculties to teach undergraduates.In many ways, this past year was a missed opportunity for the Faculty. But we hope that the combination of a new president, a new dean, a new curriculum...