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According to this week’s Gallup poll, 66 percent of those within the age range of 18 to 29 currrently give Obama a positive job approval rating, far higher than those in other age groups. Only 45 percent of those 65 and older give him a positive raiting...

Author: By Julia L Ryan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ex-Senator Addresses Future of GOP | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Faced with higher costs, Malik estimated that over half of Harvard’s security guards would opt out of their health coverage, either relying on their spouses’ insurance or forgoing a health plan altogether...

Author: By Hemi H. Gandhi and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Health Costs Could Rise for Security Guards | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

What misconceptions do we have about our differences? Crime rates are a good example. The U.S. murder rate is always held up as exemplifying the contrast across the Atlantic. There's no getting around the fact that the murder rate in America is much higher than in European countries. The implication is that every other crime is equally high, but I knew that was simply not the case. For example, [the U.S. has] comparatively low rates of sexual assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the U.S. and Europe Really That Different? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

However, current DEA policies reward agents for the aggregate number of prison-years their arrestees accrue, Osler said, offering little incentive to pursue higher-level targets...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Drug Crime Expert Criticizes Sentencing Policies | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...Condi Rice" - has angered her boss, alienated colleagues and fallen into such disgrace that her ejection from the cabinet is virtually certain during a shake-up next spring. About the only thing not failing Yade these days is public opinion - which continues to rank the outspoken 32-year-old higher than any of the politicians now yearning for her ouster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The French Government's Minority Problem | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

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