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...energy resources), and says he would oppose raising the Social Security retirement age (which if phased in over a long enough period would be the fairest, most sensible way to ease some of the system's long-run funding challenges). Near the end of the speech, there was a hint of Obama's "yes, we can" vision: a plan to give $4,000 a year in tuition aid to college students who pledge themselves to community or national service after graduation...
...Teach for America (TFA) is a case in point. Well-marketed to an extreme, TFA overcomes risk-aversion by virtue of its close ties to the corporate world; do some good teaching poor kids for a few years, and your financial reward will still be waiting for you, the hint seems to be. It's perhaps no coincidence that TFA is one of the most successful service recruiters Harvard has ever seen. But then again, this may not be surprising—TFA was founded by a Princeton student, after...
...took me into the kitchen to scold me about something and I politely excused myself in German to buzz in a friend who had come to recover the cell phone he had lent me. She turned her cold stare upon me and declared, in halting English without a hint of questioning, “Oh, you have guests...
...struggling I’m doing something right” and recognized a tone totally contrary to everything I thought I was. To the extent that I had inherited a culture, nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn’t ashamed to take steps to make life easier for myself...
...supporters not to protest the meeting "for the sake of party unity," Plouffe said. Then again, this may have less to do with principle than cold, hard political math: after all, one generally doesn't protest something that one expects to win. And that should give a pretty good hint of the likely outcome on Saturday...