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...Paulson and Representative Frank could have put in a number of rules the day the TARP cleared Congress. Frank agreed to an oversight commission that would review how the money had been spent, after it was spent. By doing that he simply wasted the time of this commission. It became nothing more than witnesses to recent history...
...spending has been worthwhile despite its high costs. “He had a strong voice in developing President Obama’s health policy ideas, so I am expecting [the policy he implements] will continue down the general lines President Obama outlined,” said Richard G. Frank, a professor of health care policy at Harvard. Asked about transitioning from academia to a government position, Cutler noted that his academic work is applicable to the real world. “Health care policy as a field is one where academics are integrated into policy debates much more than...
...more than a dozen TV interviews--saying he was doing it for his kids, for our kids, for the needy, for justice--seemed to mean it. On Good Morning America, he admitted having considered Oprah Winfrey for the Illinois Senate seat. On Today, he likened himself to a Frank Capra hero and said his arrest was like those of Mandela, M.L.K. and Gandhi. On The View, he said the Mandela-M.L.K.-Gandhi comparison had been taken "out of context," as had his recorded vow to get something for President Obama's "f______ valuable" Senate seat. (See pictures...
...there that many of us have lost control of our lives," says the author, a prominent sociologist at New York University. Conley is a master chronicler of our attention-challenged age, tallying up the social and personal costs of always striving to be somewhere else. He is admirably frank about his own frenetic life: "It's all enough to drive one bonkers," he admits. "That rocking chair in my grandparents' house sounds real nice about...
...Harvard coach Tommy Amaker and his predecessor Frank Sullivan have both stressed the danger of playing teams “with their backs against the wall.” Losers of its first two Ivy games, Columbia certainly fits the picture of a team desperately needing to win, while the Bulldogs find themselves tied for first and could be alone at the top of the table if they sweep their weekend games. But the Lions played well at home in their loss to Cornell. Expect another solid effort from a team craving Ivy victory. Columbia by five...