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...Such shame does not exist elsewhere in the world.' BUGUN, Turkish newspaper, after 13 babies died of infection within 24 hours in one of Turkey's most modern maternity hospitals...
McCain has proclaimed this crisis too important for partisan politics--at the same time he was releasing an ad blaming it on Democrats in general and Obama in particular--but in modern Washington nothing is too important for partisan politics, especially a month before an election. Members in tight races don't think a lot about statesmanship; they think about survival. Even if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House minority leader John Boehner wanted to unite their caucuses behind a bill they thought the country needed, they don't have the power of a Sam Rayburn or a Tom DeLay...
...casting tax cuts as the removal of "unfair burdens" on hardworking people, calling tariff reduction a "moral imperative." But THRIFT is one virtue he never invokes, and a restoration of restraint is a strain of conservatism he seldom promotes. In fact, it was after the most tragic day in modern U.S. history, when Bush urged people who wanted to help to "go shopping," that profligacy officially replaced prudence as a patriotic duty...
Lucy M. Caldwell ‘09, a returning columnist, is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. In her column “Spilt Milk,” she will continue to examine the collision of modern mores with conventional society on alternate Wednesdays...
...almost anachronisms, like highwaymen, egoistic outlaws from a distant past. They see an opportunity for gain, and take it; they are Overmen, perpetually transcending the mundane. Maybe that’s the best reason for bailing the financial industry out: They’re exciting—like modern-day pirates, only better. James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...