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...Bauman, a professor at the University of Washington, bills himself as the World's First and Only Stand-Up Economist*--but insists on the asterisk to honor exceptions like Ben Stein, who played the stupefyingly boring teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bauman does a killer parody of Greg Mankiw, chairman of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, a YouTube video of which has been watched 500,000 times. He's also the subject of a Facebook group called the Yoram Bauman International Appreciation Society (Pakistan chapter). "It's made up mostly of Pakistani graduate students...
What really sets Obama apart, however, is that despite his sensitivity to the problems that plague some urban neighborhoods, he does not view cities primarily as problems to be solved. "Federal policy has traditionally treated cities as victims," says Greg Nichols, mayor of Seattle. Ever since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, he explains, government has set up perverse incentives for cities by isolating funds in programs set aside for the neediest, most desperate localities. It's the urban policy equivalent of treating someone in the emergency room when they get seriously ill instead of investing in ongoing primary care...
...most biting of all are the multiple billions of dollars the agency has had to dole out annually to a prepaid retiree health-benefit fund, which was created by the Postal Act of 2006. The overall picture isn't pretty. "We actually reached that tipping point, where -" says spokesman Greg Frey, before cutting himself off to be more blunt: "Last year was a bad year...
There are an estimated 10 million deer hunters in the U.S., and 80% of the annual $20 billion spent in the hunting industry is focused on the pursuit of the fleet-footed creatures, according to a federal census study released two years ago. For Captain Greg Williford, a Texas game warden, deer-hunting is a cultural tradition that has undergone major changes in the past decade; he now finds himself using the same undercover methods employed by federal drug agents to combat deer smugglers, who are lured to the illicit trade by big bucks for, well, big bucks...
...Monday Obama joined Chicago friends Eric Whitaker, Martin Nesbitt, aide Eugene Kang and Punahou High classmates Bobby Titcomb Greg Orme for a round at the Mid-Pacific Country Club in the exclusive seaside community of Lanikai. (Obama may be the most successful graduate of Punahou but not its best golfer. PGA tour member Parker McLachlin and LPGA phenom Michelle Wie hail from the school.) (See Obama's family tree...