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...While the focus of repairing business institutions is mostly on the financial and auto sectors, no one has come up with a key to the lock of consumer spending contraction. The idea that building out infrastructure will do that is probably flawed. The process may create jobs, but that will take a long time. And, those with new employment are more likely to save this wages than spend them. At least that is what recent data show...
...evidence, from the inner city to within the prisons themselves, points to the contrary. But why is this specific policy is so harmful? In addition to being symptomatic of our government’s complicity – if not its deliberate attempts – to lock up the poor black males of our cities puts too many citizens in a harsh environment...
...second half, only giving up five turnovers, but better Dartmouth defense led to a poorer shooting percentage, as the Crimson made only 39 percent of its second-period buckets, including 3-10 from long range. Both teams knew who the stars were, and both teams made sure to lock those players down on defense. Big Green senior Alex Barnett, who is averaging 18.5 points per game, was held to only 9 points, and Lin, averaging 17.9 points, managed just 10. Both players found a way to make a difference anyway and each led his team in both rebounds and assists...
People still come to this spot at the end of Lock Three Road, in the swamps along the Louisiana-Mississippi border, where Cynthia Lynch's bloodied body was found beneath shrubs. Her death was an unlikely culmination to a weekend-long Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony, coming just days after Barack Obama's victory. She had applied to join online and traveled hundred of miles to attend the ceremony. Her death has left this region shocked, fearful of resurgent white supremacist groups, and dreading becoming a symbol of racial hatred in America...
...will cost him friends across the Middle East. The Gaza attack has strengthened Arab radicals while silencing the voices of moderate states once willing to improve ties with Israel. Egypt is in an especially tight spot: having brokered the old cease-fire and sealed its border with Gaza to lock in Hamas, the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak is now being accused - by his own people and the larger Arab world - of looking the other way while Gaza burns. (Mubarak has responded by allowing some of Gaza's wounded to be brought to Egypt for treatment...