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...voters remain skeptical that his stimulus plans will do much good. Nevertheless, Democrats scampered to make Limbaugh the new mascot of the GOP and thus link the word conservative with the word failure. Gibbs urged reporters to ask if all Republicans "want to see the President's economic agenda fail." Michael Steele, the new party chairman, rushed to say no. Limbaugh, Steele said, is "an entertainer" given to "incendiary" and "ugly" overstatements. Like other GOP leaders who have tried to dismiss the broadcaster, however, Steele soon felt obliged to apologize to the man with the 20 million listeners...
...Still, Congress is already unhappy with the vast sums of money the government is plowing into financial sinkholes like Citigroup and AIG that have been deemed too big to fail, and Geithner may have a hard time persuading it to pony up hundreds of billions of dollars more if necessary, as he said on Tuesday it might be. When the Administration rolls out its more detailed bank-bailout plans in the next few weeks, Geithner will have another chance to salvage his reputation as a salesman. But the truth is, if the plans fail on their...
...breakup of the European monetary union possible? I don't see that as being likely, but the probability of that eventually happening is rising. Right now, we are facing a situation in which many countries now have banking systems that are too big to fail and also too big to be saved. If Ireland or Greece go bust, then there is already a commitment from the Germans and French to, one way or another, bail them out. But if you have to rescue on top of them Austria and Italy, Portugal and Spain, and Belgium and the Netherlands, then that...
Planned spending from the SIF had assumed a long-term average growth rate of 8.25 percent on the endowment—a target that Harvard would fail to meet given this year’s endowment return, said University President Drew G. Faust in an interview last week...
...Five assists over two games fail to explain the forward’s full repertoire of passes—setting up teammates incisively, spraying the puck around the rink and breaching the Cornell defense...