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Your report on the class of '05 tragically illustrates how history tends to repeat itself. Today another young, idealistic generation is being fed into a vague, brutal war machine by an arrogant, self-righteous U.S. Administration. Forty years ago, the West Point classes of the '60s were sent to Southeast Asia to fight an equally vague, brutal war, ostensibly to promote freedom in that region. Many of us who served there came back scarred and maimed, and others did not return at all. The aims of our "glorious cause" were never achieved. May fate be kinder to the class...
...Fed watchers might be less convinced that Summers has put his loose-lipped days behind...
...some experts think Summers may still have a shot at Fed chair if a Democrat occupies the White House when the post next becomes vacant...
...Fed head, says DeLong, “is a job in which in general you get little credit—and if anything goes wrong you get a good deal of blame....You don’t want someone in that job who hasn’t demonstrated the ability to survive...
...result, the Fed post “would be Rubin’s job for the asking—if Rubin wants it,” Henderson says. But the former Goldman Sachs chief does not have a Ph.D. in economics, and “he may not want to roll up his sleeves and muck around in the data for 14 years”—the length of each of the appointed Fed board member’s terms. In that event, a Democratic president might try to curry Rubin’s favor by appointing Summers...