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...called the controversy "silly" and press secretary Robert Gibbs said, "If staying in school is a political message, then somebody should tell the NBA." Even Newt Gingrich (who will be joining Duncan and the Rev. Al Sharpton on a multicity speaking tour this fall to call attention to the nation's achievement gap) came out in support of the address. And while many opponents were unmoved, the furor seems on the verge of dying down. Just in time for school to start...
...discussion of what's wrong with Italian politics eventually leads to the question of what's wrong with the country's media. In a nation where the Prime Minister controls the airwaves, only one out of 10 people buys a daily paper, compared with one in five Americans and three in five people in Japan, according to the World Association of Newspapers. Italians, it seems, don't care to read the news...
Californians do not have to bear the full brunt of disaster, should it strike. Taxpayers across the nation share the cost of emergency responses to hurricanes in Florida, tornadoes in Kentucky and wildfires in California. When fires or other emergencies endanger property, states turn to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for grants of assistance that pick up 75% of the expense. Since July, eight California wildfires have qualified for FEMA assistance, says Palmer...
...truth, it is hard to think of any industrial society that in its essentials is less like the U.S. than Japan. Yes, Commodore Matthew Perry's black ships opened up Japan to trade more than 150 years ago. Yes, Japan plays baseball. But Japan is a nation with very deep cultural roots and habits - in everything from food, art, style, religion, the expected role of women and children, and so on - few of which have any point of contact with modern American mores...
...Obama Administration tried again this week to take on the coupsters of Honduras. With more than two months passed since Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was exiled in a military ouster - and less than three months to go before his impoverished Central American nation holds new presidential elections - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jabbed harder at the coup leaders to get them to let Zelaya back into Honduras and finish his democratically elected term. The U.S. cut all non-humanitarian aid to the de facto government, about $32 million; revoked the visas of all civilian and military officials who backed...