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...finally happened. This was the first presidential election dominated by the Internet. Those ancient debates about whether the Internet lowers journalistic standards and drags the Mainstream Media into the slime have become irrelevant. For a large chunk of the electorate--the young chunk--the Internet has become the major source of information...
...Another problem for the movement is that the unchecked judicial activism that had recently propelled the cause forward is part of what is pushing it back. A major reason that Proposition 8 passed in California this election-cycle is that voters were responding to a decision that had been made quite suddenly by a handful of activist judges on the California Supreme Court. California has always been at the frontier of gay rights, and the state may have been well on its way toward ratifying same-sex marriage statewide. But the lack of patience on the part of gay marriage...
...Andreasen praised Sewall’s ability to organize and unify divergent perspectives on sensitive issues, adding, “I could see her transitioning herself into a position involving national security.” According to Andreasen, Sewall’s work at the center focused on two major projects, both of which illustrated her passion for studying the interaction between humanitarian needs and armed conflict. The Mass Atrocities Response Operations Project, which Sewall directs at the Carr Center, is a joint three-year project with the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. The Harvard-based project studies...
...Fifteen years later, major health-care reform still hasn't happened, but Daschle is now well positioned to change that as President-elect Barack Obama's reported pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The former Senate Democratic leader has an understanding of the nation's health-care problem that comes not just from Senate hearing rooms or staff briefings. Daschle has seen, as few in Washington have, the particular toll that the broken system has taken on rural America. When I went to South Dakota 15 years ago to do a story on the problem, Daschle drove...
...recently, as manager of the Yokohama branch of a major Japanese nursing-care service company, Nakamura's enthusiasm has started to wane. His staff provides its elderly customers with 24-hour at-home care, helping them eat, bathe, and use the bathroom. On a busy day, each staff member makes home visits to seven or eight clients, driving to different neighborhoods to spend about 30 minutes at each home. It's hard work, and in the eight years that Nakamura has worked for the company, 30 employees have left. "People come with a dream but they quit," he says...