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...long been a sad joke that if Putin can't raise pensions and wages for the disgruntled population, he can still resolve the problem by just giving one huge raise to the OMON. Russia's suppression machine is strong as ever, and most people still believe in their Good Czar President, even if they have lost confidence in the state institutions. Putin does not have much to fear - yet. However, if there is a lesson to draw from a history of Soviet experience, it's this: power and might don't matter much if the exhausted people lose their faith...
...sure that what he's been saying for four years is right--he's for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, ratifying Kyoto, universal health care--he's convinced there's a moment coming, some event or speech or interview, when voters will suddenly realize he's not a joke: "When people see what I have to say, they go, 'Hey, wait. He's right about the war. Ha-ha. He's right about health care. Ha-ha.'" Kucinich believes deeply in the coming of this grand American epiphany even if no one outside his tiny camp does...
...constant vacillation between Cambridge and Washington was a campus joke by 1960 when Schlesinger had become one of Kennedy’s most important political confidants...
...joke may be on full-timers and part-timers alike. Although the salaryman's lifetime employment is still considered the Japanese ideal, today nearly one-third of workers in Japan are part-timers like Haruko, up from 20% in 1994. The change is the result of a painful transformation that saw Japanese corporations drastically cut back on hiring while shedding tens of thousands of workers during the economically disastrous years of the 1990s and early 2000s...
...Harvard Happenings.” Indeed, for someone who hasn’t seen the Web site before, the notion that my.harvard, which turns seven years old in just a few months, was meant to be an informative and intuitive nexus for Harvard undergraduates must seem like a bad joke. Showing its age more like vinegar than a fine wine, Harvard’s portal site is cumbersome, irrelevant, and dated. It’s no wonder that the only time many College students log on to my.harvard is when they’re forced to on study card...