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...just never really finds a voice, despite being the longest track on the album, instead meandering between instrumentalism, electronic noise, distraught and disparaged crooning, and moments of levity. “Love the Future” is as much a throwback to the past as it is a landmark for the future. Chester French succeed, however, in marrying the two into a happy and pleasurable medley that leaves little to be desired. “Love the Future” is intelligent with being pretentious, facile without seeming campy, and eclectic without being scattered. In its individual tracks...
...become something of a landmark, a geographic reference point for people on campus...
...braced by his old pal Orrin Hatch. The two Senators, the President and First Lady, and former President Bill Clinton had come to the SEED School in Southeast Washington, a working-class neighborhood that rarely gets a glimpse of a President, let alone two. The occasion: the signing of landmark national-service legislation that had been sponsored by the Republican Hatch, from Utah, and the ailing Democratic lion from Massachusetts...
...first three months in office. "Lyndon Johnson had two 100-days periods," says historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, "one after the Kennedy assassination and another after he was elected in 1964." Indeed, Johnson's legislative haul dwarfs anything before or since; he quickly got Congress on track to pass landmark civil rights bills and create Medicare, among other things. "And you have to say that Reagan had a significant 100 days," Goodwin adds, "because he represented a clear break from the policies of the past, even if his signature legislation - the tax cuts - didn't pass until after the 100 days...
...legislative achievements have been stupendous - the $789 billion stimulus bill, the budget plan that is still being hammered out (and may, ultimately, include the next landmark safety-net program, universal health insurance). There has also been a cascade of new policies to address the financial crisis - massive interventions in the housing and credit markets, a market-based plan to buy the toxic assets that many banks have on their books, a plan to bail out the auto industry and a strict new regulatory regime proposed for Wall Street. Obama has also completely overhauled foreign policy, from Cuba to Afghanistan...