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...Washington RIP, F-22? In a 58-40 split, the U.S. Senate voted July 21 to scrap orders for seven F-22 fighter jets from a $679.8 billion military-spending bill, ending a standoff between lawmakers who defended the $1.75 billion project (which does not include R&D costs) as a way to create as many as 25,000 jobs and those who derided the combat plane as a relic of the Cold War. President Barack Obama, who threatened to veto the entire bill if the F-22 plans weren't eliminated, hailed the decision as a major victory...
OAKLAND, Calif.—Driving up to the Bay Area was an interesting experience. For the first hour, I felt like I had driven into the world depicted at the opening of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. It was pure desolation, a veritable wasteland. I half-expected the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg to pop out of nowhere. Then an hour further and I felt like I was on the set of North by Northwest, as crop planes soared down close over...
...Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
...wildly irresponsible, unfunded Medicare drug bill that George W. Bush enacted. Occasionally, responsible actions take place in the budget process. Bill Clinton spent most of his political capital on deficit reduction, which helped fuel the economic boom of the 1990s. Obama has just managed to kill the F-22, an anachronistic fighter jet. Very, very occasionally a special interest will take it on the chin - as the teachers' unions did when Bush passed the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandated a testing regimen the teachers didn't like. But the passage of landmark legislation like the health-industry reforms...
...John F. Kennedy served Dom Pérignon champagne at nearly every function, while Lyndon B. Johnson switched it up with Piper-Heidsieck. Richard Nixon favored European wines; he considered himself somewhat of an expert, and a few of his bottles are still stocked in the White House cellar. After California vineyards gained prominence in the 1970s, administrations became a bit more U.S.-centric. Reagan, Bill Clinton and both Bushes regularly served California bottles at official functions. Sometimes the White House will purchase a beverage from a visiting dignitary's home country. Tsingtao beer has been served at every Chinese...