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...critique threatens to undermine the White House's finely tuned election-year story line. To hear President Obama or his aides tell it, the coming Senate debate on financial regulatory reform will offer a clear choice to voters this fall between most Democrats who are defending the interests of Main Street and most Republicans who are in the pocket of Wall Street. Kaufman, by contrast, argues that neither party has yet shown much seriousness about undoing decades of deregulation, and nonregulation, that created the conditions for the financial collapse in the first place...
...problem with China isn't simply that we misunderstand each other. Mao used to say any problem could be divided into a "main problem" and "subsidiary problems." Our main problem is that China often feels only limited attachment to the power system that has evolved in the Western world. It has often been victimized by this system and has never felt the ownership over it that Western nations do. And of course China has centuries of native strategic culture that, overlaid with the neuralgia of Marxism, shapes its thinking. Calls for China to be a responsible stakeholder have failed...
...superhuman individuals we expect ourselves to become. Each dismal day takes us farther down the path of success, eliminating distractions and thankfully giving us no option but to concentrate on our studies. The occasional cheery days that Cambridge does enjoy are not enough to distract us from our main purpose at Harvard—to become wealthy future world leaders and save people from poverty and other injustices across the globe...
Administrative reorganization, which will save the school system about $1.2 million, is the main way the budget recommends to reducing costs. The district plans to perform a comprehensive review of the organizational structure of administrative and operational departments...
...wonderful acting on the part of the main characters and the intense depiction of the entire account very much outweigh the film’s faults. For example, early in the film, Mussolini menacingly barks, “It’s ten past five, I challenge God!” This powerful performance, and the many others like it, ensures that this film will haunt viewers long after they have left the cinema...