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...Interest in barefoot running has ramped up in recent months with Christopher McDougall's best seller, Born to Run, which follows Mexico's Tarahumara Indians, who routinely run ultra-marathons wearing thin rubber sandals or no shoes at all. But many podiatrists point out that there are little data on the long-term effects of going barefoot, and they urge average runners to show caution before they chuck their Nikes...
...Taxpayers (a.k.a. voters) were acting in their own interests in bailing out the system. They weren't doing anybody a favor. Furthermore, government already stands to collect about 50% of any Wall Street cash bonuses in the form of income tax ... None of this means Americans don't have an ancient and abiding interest in subjecting bankers to scorn. A rough socialism is fundamental to civilization: The most beautiful virgin must be sacrificed to make the other virgins feel better...
Students do share some blame for the inundation of emails. From the start of freshman year, whether because of our broad curiosity or plain indecisiveness, many of us have signed up on every group and event list that could ever even remotely interest us. But we wouldn’t have to do this if we had a more intelligent, refined online events calendar. Right now, students don’t use the current online events calendar, HarvardEvents, because it’s just too overwhelming—it’s one big mass of uncategorized daily events...
Throughout his career, Joffe, who was raised in New Jersey, also had an interest in civil rights...
...Obama, Roosevelt was confronted with the task of actively restoring government’s credibility in an age of dramatic economic inequality and misconduct. Although Teddy didn’t face massive unemployment as Obama faces today, he did have to confront an economic elite disconnected from the public interest. To counter these foes, TR had to harness the power of populist anger without letting it define him. Obama must now do the same...