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...mention a few times the famous quote attributed to Mark Twain, "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes." What period are we rhyming with now? Is this an echo of the Great Depression or is there something else that would be more...
What he does not mention, though, are details of his story that mark him as firmly part of the elite. He attended Harvard for both undergraduate and law school, where Barack Obama was a couple years ahead. Davis eschewed joining a New York or Washington law firm, and became a federal prosecutor, frequently handling drug cases. In 1998, he joined a prominent Birmingham law firm, Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell, where he specialized in employment and white-collar criminal cases...
...from the Obama Administration's point of view, there are equally compelling reasons not to get distracted by public trials that do little to further the President's ambitious agenda of health care reform, the re-regulation of Wall St. and a bill to slow global warming, not to mention dealing with the ongoing financial crisis and ground wars on two fronts. And those two competing perspectives are fueling a defining debate between the Democratic Congress and the Democratic White House: after an extremely productive first 100 days, do they spend the next 100 looking forward or backward? (See TIME...
...resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence. But as the game has become increasingly popular--some 15,000 schools and recreation centers worldwide have bought group stacking kits in the past three years--the tempo, not to mention the dang-this-makes-adults-feel-old factor, has really picked...
...mention his unforgettable voice, familiar not only to fans of the Philadelphia Phillies--for whom he had broadcast games since 1971--but also to people across the nation who heard him narrate highlights for NFL Films. When I joined the Phillies broadcast crew in 1980, I was a neophyte. In the beginning, my job was pretty much to get chairs for all the other guys. But I was lucky to work with a legend. Harry never pulled me aside to give me any kind of speech. I learned by observing and listening. I'd study his flow, his cadence...