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...nation dependent on the creativity and high productivity of its tertiary sector, the United States will need all the help it can get to recover from this devastating recession. Unfortunately, current policies are likely to exacerbate, not alleviate, present economic pains. President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress ought to reconsider this potentially costly mistake...
...competition goes up, so the bad news is that it’s harder to get a job at all in academia,” the computer science professor said. “The good news is that the supply is large relative to the demand, so the quality ought to increase in all good dimensions.” At present, it is unclear whether or not the program will be temporary, but if the program does stay, some professors voiced worry that it may grow too large. “What you don’t want...
...also pledged a new framework for additional earmark reforms for 2010. But it's lame for Obama's aides to dismiss the 2009 budget as leftover business from the Bush era. He's the President. He wasn't elected to ignore the leftover business from the Bush era. He ought to be taking heat for punting - not only on the earmarks, but on the other $402 billion worth of government spending. But his critics, from McCain on the Senate floor to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, keep harping on earmarks and almost nothing else...
...State countered that the U.S. has had peaceful, non-intrusive relations with the country. Regardless of whether the U.S. is guilty of the accusations, the scandal’s message sends negative signals to the rest of Latin America. This is not the kind of positive image America ought to be cultivating with Latin American countries...
...prognosticators are correct, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue its first arrest warrant for a sitting head of state on Wednesday afternoon. That's when the court will announce whether Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ought to stand trial on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his alleged role in orchestrating the Darfur conflict. Regardless of what one makes of the idea of international justice, an arrest warrant would be a historic move that many human-rights experts believe will further erode that sense of impunity shared by dictators the world over...