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...insolvent, the issue of the public discovering the findings in the press was probably not a priority. Government officials should have assumed that the confidentiality of the data was safe. How would the press ever get its hands on such sensitive information? The same way that it has gotten other classified information - obsessive digging and good contracts inside the Administration. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...would think that swine flu has gotten old by now, with Mexico finally letting people into the streets again and the United States easing up on precautions. But apparently Yale has gotten so worked up about swine flu that they've canceled both their summer course and internship program in Mexico, leaving 19 Bulldogs without summer plans. In this economy, good luck finding another internship in May...during finals...
...were just runnin’ around soccering, or as the Europeans say, “footballing” when Walter and Clem accidentally collided knee-to knee in an unbridled explosion of full contact dude-ness.BAM! Walt was on the ground, obviously in a bunch of pain. His knee had gotten smacked pretty good. Now, at this point, a lesser man might have lashed out at Clem for his role in having facilitated the collision. But no. There was no blame to be placed here, no mud to sling. Walty understood that knee collisions where a very real possibility...
...With his dramatic plans to restructure Wall Street and Detroit, overhaul health care and create a clean-energy economy, Obama is certainly taking political risks, even if he hasn't gotten around to replacing the almighty dollar with some new, one-world currency the black-helicopter crowd keeps warning about. But it's not clear that the Republicans in their current incarnation would be a credible alternative if he falters. "We've got to be at least plausible, and I worry about that," says GOP lobbyist Ed Rogers. Republicans never really left the idea business, but Americans haven't been...
...Amazon and eBay. They're still with us. Stabilizing the economy isn't the final goal. Having a little bit of turmoil, as long as it doesn't get out of hand, is part of creative destruction. You have a history of highlighting parts of the economy that have gotten out of hand before other people are paying attention. What's next...