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...from all this is that the U.S. and global credit markets are still impaired, and more disruptive uncertainty lies ahead. The economy is still very weak, and while the pace of contraction in real activity is slowing, the global contraction is going to be with us for a while longer. Indeed, a global recovery is conditioned on the health of the U.S. financial system. And even after the stress tests, the health of that system is still in question...
...colleague for eight years and friend for longer, I can say that Tom Jehn is the perfect choice to lead Expos. As the article’s other quotations suggest, he has spent two intense years rebuilding a program with transparency, decency, and new ideas. A superb teacher himself—perhaps the article could have given his average Q rating over the last 10 years? —he has proven himself an effective and trusted administrator. He’s also pretty bright: an intellectual force I would say, if the term wasn’t already debased...
...better or for worse, we are no longer a part of a society that encourages women to be chaste or careful—that is, a society in which reports of sexual assault were likely just that, rather than intimate exchanges that went on too long or signals that were more mixed than we might have hoped. The mentality in which we blindly protect the women in our lives from supposed male predators is not compatible with our can-do credo, through which we encourage the same women to grab life by the horns, even in the realm of sexual...
Because of the scandal, the Archdiocese of Miami says Cutié, 40, is no longer the administrator of his Miami Beach parish, and it has barred him from leading Sunday Mass there. His media work seems up in the air now, and the popular website padrealberto.net has only a blue screen with a message from Cutié asking forgiveness. (See the 25 most influential Evangelicals in America...
Palestinian Authority: Just Who's in Charge? Unlike Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is fully committed to the two-state solution being championed by the Obama Administration. The problem, however, is that Abbas is plainly no longer representative of those on whose behalf he negotiates - and that means he has precious little ability to deliver on any promises he makes to the Israelis or Americans. His term of office formally expired in January, and that month's Israeli offensive in Gaza reduced his popularity to an all-time low. Were a new Palestinian election to be held today...