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Clinton and the S&L Further questions surrounding the suicide last summer of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster arose when it was disclosed that files containing information about the First Family's personal finances had been removed from his office before investigators had a chance to see them. The files contained documents related to the Clintons' investment in Whitewater Development Corp., a real estate company connected to a failed Arkansas savings and loan that is under investigation by the Justice Department. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole said the Senate Banking Committee should examine the S&L in question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK DECEMBER 19-25 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...compelling story” while other candidates failed to invoke morality effectively and seemed technocratic, he said. Sandel then discussed how framing politics in terms of a common ethic responsibility can take the form of patriotism. He noted, however, that currently both conservatives and liberals have failed to foster the right kind of uplifting constructive patriotism. Sandel said that the patriotism promoted by the Republicans since 9/11 is a “patriotism not of joy or even inspiration, but of fear.” When President Bush responded to the public “yearning for a common purpose?...

Author: By Taro Tsuda, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sandel Talks Up New Book at Store | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

Stay Directed by Marc Foster Twentieth Century Fox ** Anyone up for a wannabe “artsy” film on crack? If so, check out director Marc Foster’s (“Finding Neverland”) mentally twisting movie “Stay.” “Stay,” starring the oh-so-lovable Ewan McGregor, traces psychologist Dr. Sam Foster’s (McGregor) journey through discovering the truth about his disturbingly troubled and clairvoyant patient, Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling). The narrative leapfrogs back and forth in time without explanation, which...

Author: By Erin A. May, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stay | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

These are also the questions that got students most enthusiastic at the RUS town hall meeting in Loker. Naturally, they proposed, Harvard’s women’s center should have offices for its staff. Eager to foster campus dialogue on women’s issues, they envisioned ample meeting space for student groups as well. Many called for a place to socialize; two suggested a café to draw in more casual students and keep them there. And all of this, of course, would be prominently located in the middle of campus...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Room for Improvement | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...would anybody run a business like that? If you follow conventional wisdom, Apple is doing it all wrong. Try to do everything at once, and you won't do anything well. Worse, the way Apple operates is not how you're supposed to foster innovation, or not in the U.S., anyway. Under the traditional, capitalist, Adam Smithian model, new and better things arise as a result of freedom and open competition, but Apple is essentially operating its own closed miniature techno-economy. What is this, Soviet Russia? Why not license Mac OS X to Dell, see what hardware it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Apple Does It | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

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