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Over the course of this year’s campaign, my grandparents—despite their unfortunate racist inclinations—were particularly happy with Barack Obama, then candidate and now President-elect. For them, his appeal didn’t lie with his denunciation of the war in Iraq, his plan for universal healthcare, or even his promise to reinvigorate the economy. Rather, it was his stance on the Armenian Genocide, of which my grandparents were victims, that won them over: “America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully...
President-elect Barack Obama announced that former University President Lawrence H. Summers will be heading the National Economic Council yesterday...
...president-elect has already asked his economic team to consult with Congress, the current administration, and the Federal Reserve on economic developments over the next two months, to brief him daily, and to issue recommendations for a recovery plan...
...Cape Verdeans overseas, including a very large contingent in Boston. With the help of remittances sent back home from workers abroad, Cape Verde has doubled its per capita income since 1990—the sums amount to about 12 percent of GDP. In fact, Cape Verde migrants elect their own representatives to the National Assembly. Cape Verde has become a state beyond borders, and this is all the better for Cape Verdeans. If we start to increase human mobility rather than impede it, fighting poverty will become more than a zero-sum game. Our economic output would increase tremendously...
...have him arrested for allegedly plotting the President's assassination (a charge Chávez often hurls against his critics), said, "The map of Venezuela has started to change." Maybe. But Chávez and the opposition did make Venezuela seem a bit less angrily polarized. Caracas mayor-elect Antonio Ledezma reached out to work with Chavez - a gesture that would make any reported attempts by Chávez to cut off budget resources to opposition victors look petty...