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Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, except that right now everyone wants a little piece of it. The mob has been chanting for months, ever since former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson arrived in late September on Capitol Hill to warn of disaster, pass around his three-page plan and demand $700 billion to fix the problem. Most members of Congress were so spooked they were ready to write a check, until their phone lines started melting with the angry voices of taxpayers demanding details about the likely return on the investment. But even the minimal strings attached did not prevent...
...memory to make an American foreign correspondent feel homesick. The first day of my trip to Iran coincided with a new President's taking office in Washington and a demonstration at Tehran University in support of the Gaza Palestinians. Several thousand students gathered on campus and acted out a page from the standard Islamic Resistance playbook. "The blood in our veins is a gift to our leader," they chanted. "Israel will be destroyed, and Gaza is victorious." Later, part of the crowd reconvened at the former U.S. embassy--now known as the Den of Spies--and burned posters of George...
...Diego, says he marveled at Sunstein’s work ethic, having worked with him to study the unpredictability of punitive damages in legal cases. “We’d have a conversation on Thursday and by Saturday night there’d be a 15-page draft in an e-mail,” he said.One thing that has remained constant in Sunstein’s life is his love of squash. In 2008, Sunstein said that he played three to four times per week. The sport gave him chances to learn the power of colorful analogy...
...organize a letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson from student leaders representing over 100 U.S. colleges that protested the war in Vietnam. They questioned the purpose, tactics, and media coverage of the war, along with the draft. The letter stirred up national attention after it appeared on the front-page of The New York Times in December...
Indeed, most of the 65 Twittering Representatives rely on their staffs to post links to press releases and notices of public events. "The feed is live now on http://dodd.senate.gov. The town hall will start shortly," reads a typical Tweet on Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd's Twitter page. But a few members like Hoekstra are braving uncharted territory, providing a unique window into the daily machinations of the nation's power brokers and, in the process, establishing a new form of civic journalism...