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...does it matter who oversees the census? In very general terms, Republicans would prefer to err on the side of undercounting and Democrats would prefer to err on the side of overcounting. The options can yield very different numbers for demographic groups and localities - and they have significant political and policy implications. This most recent skirmish is more manufactured than real, the result of willful misunderstandings. But it has its roots in an ongoing battle over whom the census counts...
...Undergraduates may err, but it takes a tenured professor to distort reality that badly. Kennedy is neither an historian nor an expert on the Middle East. What he is good at is thinking up radical ways to turn the academy upside down. He once suggested that the professors at Harvard Law School should earn the same salaries as the janitors. (After reading his opinions on Israel, you may be inclined to agree...
...blown economic heart attack might well be coming. During the Jackson Hole meetings, Geithner pressed the view that Fed policy was behind the curve; the problem in the credit markets was big and likely to get worse, and the Fed needed to get out in front of it, to err on the side of being aggressive. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...even broader scale, than the government has to date. Geithner has declined publicly to put a number on just how large a stimulus package the new Administration will seek after Obama takes office on Jan. 20. But associates say he has been emphatic about one thing: the Administration should err on the high side. The package should be big. How big is big? "Big enough," he has told friends. In this case, he believes, "prudence requires scale...
...imagine the pain not only of this child but of her parents, trying to do the right thing. They are told one night that an ambulance would come and take her away because they were not doing their job to protect her. And yet you understand why doctors will err on the side of treatment. And why the doctor who called in the authorities was concerned about the ability of anyone, especially a 13-year-old, to walk away from something that represented hope, however feeble. But you have to be grateful that the ultimate judges kept an open mind...