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...glad to report that I am joined in this openness to private investment by Democrats like the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, and even the godfather of Social Security himself. In a 1935 letter to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, wrote of his hope for the “promises of private investment and private initiative to relieve the government in the immediate future of much of the burden it has assumed will be fulfilled.” Indeed, President Roosevelt unsuccessfully proposed adding “voluntary contributory annuities by which individual...
Additionally, Stone recently worked with socialite music producer Denise Rich to write the song “Come Together Now,” which will be recorded by a group of celebrities including Aretha Franklin, Lindsay Lohan, and Peter Gabriel for a CD to fund relief efforts for victims of South Asia’s recent tsunami...
...completely frightened when I was given the news,” said Beth Allard of Franklin, Mass., who spoke of her son Ben’s diagnosis at yesterday’s press conference...
Toward the end of his latest rhetorical flight into liberal idealism, at the National Defense University last week, George W. Bush called the roll of high-minded American initiatives in the past century: Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points, Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, Harry Truman's Marshall Plan, the Reagan Doctrine. Three of the four Presidents invoked were Democrats, and the policies cited were spiritually quite the opposite of the Bush Doctrine, at least...
...same kind of easy stagnation has returned to the physics department now that he’s left the chairmanship. The changes he made, like the group of faculty he got to take on extra advising duties, are being “dismantled,” he says, and Franklin agrees that the department isn’t as aware of the need to bring in women. “He’s no longer chair of the graduate admissions committee, and other people aren’t so clear on this,” Franklin says...