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...Rather than a stenographer, Pooley would prefer to see the media adopt the position of an "honest referee - keeping score, throwing flags when a team plays fast and loose with the facts, explaining to the audience what's happening on the field and why." In an issue as complex as climate change, the country badly needs smart, fair umpires, and the media can play that role. But the wave of cutbacks and closings that have hit the American media could make that all but impossible. Referees need to know the game cold, and climate change demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Press Misreporting the Environment Story? | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...debt levels and their impact on the economy” in order to maintain both stability and growth. Second, it allocates the means to fund such objectives. Although these tall orders might ordinarily lead to filibuster for other legislation, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 mandates “fast-track” legislative procedures—limiting debate times and even restricting amendments based on relevancy—to protect against that. This means that Congress will have no choice but to confront the new and controversial policies in Obama’s proposal—many of which...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Budget to End All Budgets | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...official: the economy really is in free fall. When the bean counters at the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) came out a month ago with their first estimate of how fast the economy shrank in the fourth quarter, economists and investors were surprised that it was at a mere 3.8% annual rate. Now, after some of the updates and revisions that are a standard part of the process of estimating gross domestic product (GDP), the number is a far more dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 6.2% Drop in GDP: Is the Worst Yet to Come? | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Planet.” In constant transformation starting from its acoustic intro, the song is almost unrecognizable by the end, but the build always makes sense and is never rushed or jarring. The psychedelic lyrics—“She’s a person fast at play / She’s a planet on display”—only help add to the impression of a songwriter completely in charge of his craft.Though Pollard is indisputably the leader of the group, Boston Spaceships has clearly become a very tight band. John Moen (The Decemberists) on drums...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Spaceships | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Fast Facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistani Opposition Leader Nawaz Sharif | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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