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...pieces, like health-care reform, can't be rushed. But there is a real chance that at least some of the economic jolt that Obama wants will be ready for his signature the moment he takes the oath of office. That will make for an extraordinary Inauguration Day--and mark just the start of the new President's efforts to meet the extraordinary challenges that await...
...import of the deal, known as the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), is inarguable: after nearly six years, it would mark the beginning of the end of the U.S. occupation. Under SOFA's terms, the U.S. would withdraw nearly all 150,000 of its troops by New Year's Day 2012, leaving Iraq's security in the hands of its own army...
While long, written general exams used to be standard across departments, Classics is the only one that still requires students to pass a comprehensive test of that length to graduate, according to Director of Undergraduate Studies Mark J. Schiefsky, who is on the review committee that will present the proposal to the full department next month...
...contrasting responses mark an interesting shift in how the two Western powers are handling the ongoing economic crisis. Europe was initially lauded for its dramatic bailouts of banks and plans to reshape the global financial system. But in the past couple of weeks, as Obama has begun to outline a package featuring the largest U.S. public spending effort since the Depression-era New Deal, Europe has started to look like it's dragging its feet. (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
This Dec. 18 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the moment when Deng Xiaoping pushed a Communist Party plenum into adopting the first measures that would launch the country into the most extraordinary burst of economic development the world has ever seen. Outsiders have been predicting that it couldn't last ever since. The financial and economic crisis currently plaguing the globe has lead the whole world into unchartered territory. If the likes of Kroeber and Rothman are right, the one thing that could remain constant in a world where nothing seems fixed is China's ability to surprise...