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...Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R.'s New Deal. Smoot and Hawley were Republicans, and the act that bears their names was passed in 1930, during the Hoover Administration. If Gingrich is unable to get his facts straight about the last century, why should we listen to his suggestions for this one? Lee Poole, PHOENIX...
...been served with a subpoena in a lawsuit stemming from a former patient. On top of that, he's going through a divorce and has uprooted himself from suburban Maryland to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he's started a new practice. "Oh," Gina says cheerfully, "some new problems to listen to." Wearily, Paul answers, "There are no new problems...
...course, uniting a diverse nation is probably an infeasible task. No president, at least in a democracy, has the ability to tell citizens what to believe. What is in the president’s power, however, is to challenge those who listen to him—but Obama is still too hesitant to do so. During a recent press conference, for example, he essentially dismissed a question from NBC correspondent Chuck Todd. Todd asked why, if past presidents had had the power to call for some form of sacrifice, Obama did not ask for something specific now, especially since...
...went from one just user to millions of singles seeking love, CEO Gregory L. Waldorf said, “Just sheer hustle.” About 15 people gathered on the fourth floor of Harvard Student Agencies yesterday in an event sponsored by the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum to listen to Waldorf talk about his experience with the match-making start-up. Waldorf joined the company in August 2000 as a founding investor. The main question Waldorf addressed was a central problem facing Internet entrepreneurs. How can online businesses devise a model that could turn a profit when people...
...adjoining lecterns - Obama conjured a sense of optimism about what the G-20 might achieve, and more broadly about America's changed view of its international role. He had come, he told an audience that included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, "to listen, not to lecture." The phrase had already been telegraphed by his press team, but it was no less powerful for that, especially to an audience used to his predecessor's homilies on American views and values. More startling, Obama said the U.S. was coming...