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...late March, after most of his colleagues had split for the Easter holiday, Kaufman lingered on the Senate floor, waiting for his chance to address rows of empty chairs, a few pimple-faced pages and the C-SPAN cameras in his latest well-sourced broadside against the conventional wisdom on Wall Street and in the White House. "Unless Congress breaks up the megabanks that are 'too big to fail,' " he declared to an empty chamber, "the American taxpayer will remain the ultimate guarantor in an almost-certain-to-repeat-itself cycle of boom, bust and bailout...
...Senate office, Kaufman has stacked the latest books on the financial crisis on his desk, background reading for his regular trips to New York to meet with bankers and analysts. Financial regulation is a crusade he never expected to take on when he accepted his two-year posting. But his 32 years as a Senate aide - and his subsequent time as an academic observer of Washington - taught him not to be discouraged by long odds...
...officials stress the fact - and it is a fact - that both the number of terrorism attacks and the overall death toll have decreased to a level not seen since just after the March 2003 invasion. But statistics are cold comfort when the latest explosion has leveled a nearby building. Surviving yet another attack leaves Iraqis raw and emotional and angry. "We think they are still under the ruins, kids and young boys," says Jasim Talib Khalil, 43, a father of four who lives in the north-central Alawi neighborhood, close to the National Museum, near a bombed apartment building with...
...with a desire to appear reasonable, maintain the illusion of good-faith negotiations and insulate themselves from charges of carrying the industry's water when the negotiations fall apart. We saw this movie during health care. And if you focus on the fundamentals - political and substantive - instead of the latest Washington kabuki, the path to passage is a lot harder to envision than the path to oh-well-maybe-next-year. (See the top 10 health care reform...
...which isn't to say there is nothing holding together all the different sectors of the eating public. Whether in the form of bizarre, genius fast food like KFC's Double Down, a fried-chicken, bacon and cheese sandwich in which two breasts serve as the bun, or the latest high-end fondues, foams and organ fritters, we all have an "open desire for more stimulation." We're at least American enough to all have that in common, anyway...