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...also remember that Harvard is no longer a school for Puritans. Let yourself have fun! When else in your life are you going to be surrounded by a pool of such well-rounded, eligible singles? You’re going to regret sitting on the sidelines, so strap on your sexiest knickerbockers or slip into your spiciest cardigan and roll with...
...Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated have documented Orszag's less-would-be-better thesis. But to laymen it can still sound like typically empty government promises to weed out waste, fraud and abuse. And the most prominent town-hall angle of attack against Obamacare has been its alleged scheme to let government bureaucrats pull the plug on Grandma, refuse to treat handicapped children and otherwise ration care, so again, it's easy to see why the Administration has soft-pedaled its earlier pleas for fiscal sanity. Instead, Obama is bashing the insurance industry for its own overzealous efforts to cut costs...
...East Jerusalem. Its plans to develop 20 new Israeli homes were denounced last month by the Obama Administration. Huckabee told TIME that he purchased his own air ticket and was not a member of Ateret Cohanim. "I have no personal connection," he said. "I don't think they would let me in since I'm not Jewish." (See pictures of Huckabee on the campaign trail...
...crusade can only be a short-term drug-war strategy, the U.S. must "engage in a strategic partnership with Mexico that emphasizes reform and longer-term institution-building." One goal, aside from reining in police corruption, is to bridge the chaotic gaps between federal, state and local police that let Mexico's drug cartels divide and conquer the country's cops so easily. Says Agnes Schaefer, lead author of the Rand study: "Congress needs to realign the distribution of Mérida's resources if it's serious about increasing security for the U.S. in the long...
Schaefer applauds Calderón and Mexico for the fledgling reform efforts started so far, which she urges the U.S. to do more to promote - especially since Calderón has dropped Mexico's hypernationalist, antigringo guard for a while to let Washington take a more active role. "Mexico is on the right track," she says, "but we have to take better advantage of this window of opportunity that Calderón has given us before he leaves office...