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...there was ever a good time for President Obama to make one of his lauded grand-slam speeches, it was last week. Obama’s hallmark health-care reform suffered a disheartening blow with the January 19th election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate, thereby ruining the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority. Coupling the election with a lack of progress on many of the other issues that comprised a major part of Obama’s campaign, a chorus of pundits, politicians, and voters immediately declared Obama’s agenda dead or, at least, majorly stunted...
...TR’s day, promoting the common good and improving the quality of American life meant busting up monopolies and creating hard and fast rules for corporate responsibility. In Obama’s administration, it means advocating substantial financial reform without apology, illuminating the ills of the lobbying culture, and taking quick action against the Supreme Court’s recent, undemocratic ruling granting corporations the right to invest unlimited sums in political campaigns. Roosevelt attacked bankers and the titans of socially-detrimental enterprises from the right, standing up for individual entrepreneurial opportunity and a level economic playing field...
...think it’s a good idea,” said Samantha R. Reiser ’11. “But we never come to any consensus on policy like that...
...meets] went really well,” Saretsky said. “It was a good opportunity for some athletes to get in a single event and focus on putting up a mark or a time. We had some very good performances...
...usual offensive stars—Matera, Lippert, Berry and junior Emma Markley—hitting their shots. But the Crimson allowed the Big Red to hang around just long enough to tie the game twice before two free throws from junior Jackie Alemany finally put Harvard up for good with 13 minutes to play...