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Fermi Wong had her moment of revelation one day in 1998. The social worker was roving the streets of a working-class neighborhood in Hong Kong's Kowloon district, looking out for truant youth, when she came across a gaggle of Pakistani kids playing soccer. They ran and tackled each other along the edge of a pavement, in view of an unoccupied public field equipped with proper goals. Bemused, Wong asked them why they weren't using the actual soccer pitch, which was open to all. "People told us we're not allowed there," came the response...
...Kolloen apparently hadn't heard of. “Had I been a better blogger,” he conceded, “I would’ve noticed that Harvard has a player named Jeremy Lin who is a pretty talented basketball player—and at this moment a better one than Garcia...
...growth of medical spending? The core point at which health care costs explode is the point at which the doctor and the patient sit down together to make a decision about what they should do for care. We have not concentrated enough, in our thinking about reform, on that moment. What we want is care that is much better organized. We are going to need approaches like checklists to get rid of wasted care and to make sure we're taking the right steps forward. [The health care reform bills] don't have the answers. There was no bill that...
...Iraq by the end of 2011. Iraq remains far from stable, and the Obama Administration is working through diplomatic channels to cajole the Iraqis into managing their ethnic and sectarian political struggles, but with the same diminished leverage, and therefore limited effect, of the Bush Administration. The moment in which the U.S. was able to significantly change the outcome in Iraq passed sometime before Bush left office; Obama is simply wrapping things up. (See the best pictures...
...Shovel-ready 2. Transparent/Transparency 3. Czar 4. Tweet 5. App 6. Sexting 7. Friend as a verb 8. Teachable Moment 9. In These Economic Times ... 10. Stimulus 11. Toxic Assets 12. Too Big to Fail 13. Bromance 14. Chillaxin' 15. Obama as a prefix...