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Over the near term, however, the Administration knows it must contend with unpleasant realities, thanks to that unsettling double-digit jobless rate: "We're in for a pretty dark period," says the Treasury official. But, anticipating that, the Administration's strategy has intentionally avoided overpromising. "Obama's numbers hold up because he doesn't oversell," the official says. "We need to be steady and say, We know this will work but it's going to take time. Ultimately we're pretty confident that we did the right things and that it will help...
...sounding too negative. The last thing a politician wants in a time of economic hardship is to appear as if there's no hope. "If the GOP are too much doom and gloom, that can work to our advantage," says the senior Treasury official. The Republicans seem already to know that. Says McConnell: "As Americans, we are united in our efforts to get the economy back on track and put more people back to work...
...Speaks, the nation's largest autism advocacy group. The slickly produced video, written by Grammy-nominated songwriter Billy Mann and directed by Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón, shows a series of images of children with autism, accompanied by an ominous voice-over: "I am Autism ... I know where you live ... I live there too ... I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer and diabetes combined ... And if you are happily married, I will make sure that your marriage fails...
Moreover, the ethnic group that inhabits this remote, mountainous part of the world, know as the Monpa, has always stood somewhat apart from the Tibetans of the plateau, despite sharing their religious and cultural outlook. In the days when political power was concentrated in Lhasa, Tibetans would look down upon the Monpa almost as if they were a tribe of southern barbarians. But after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, the group on the margins found itself at the center of a hot spot, faced with the task of aiding compatriots who were fleeing the brutal Chinese crackdown...