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...could be turned to something so powerful and life changing,” Carlson said. “It can take on its own life. It’s just a beautiful organic project, and I didn’t really realize what an amazing thing we were a part of until it was actually happening...
...upset people and the perception that you're at one with Wall Street, at one with Big Government. And obviously that means financial reform and also I think budget and infrastructure are going to be big things this year. But let me ask you first about the financial reform part of it. One of your advisers, Paul Volcker, has said that none of the financial instruments that have been developed over the past 20 years have added anything to our economy. And I remember you and I talking during the campaign about how the economy was going to have...
...part of that pivot, then, is to say, "How are we going to make sure that we squeeze every ounce of value out of every dollar that we spend?" We began that process with Pentagon reform. And the victories that [Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates helped win are ones that this town completely discounted when we started. We are scrubbing the budget once again to make sure that every program that we're funding actually has some justification - it actually works. Yesterday we had a whole bunch of CEOs and innovators here to talk about modernization of government. The infrastructure...
...parents each married four times, and his mother was briefly on welfare. Brown was shuttled among relatives while he was growing up in the northern suburbs of Boston. As a youth, he was arrested for shoplifting. He credits the judge, Samuel Zoll, for setting him straight, in part by making him write a 1,500-word essay on what his life would be like in jail. Brown told the Boston Globe: "The other day I was at Staples, and something was in my cart that I didn't pay for. I had to bring it back because ... I thought...
...court in Ho Chi Minh City found a prominent Vietnamese human rights lawyer and three other pro-democracy activists guilty of trying to overthrow the government. Though the defendants avoided possible death sentences, the widely publicized trial, part of a broader recent crackdown on dissidents, is seen as a signal that Vietnam's communist leadership is growing increasingly intolerant of criticism of the regime...