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Having achieved its goal of fleecing the public on a summer weekend, Transformers 2 will pass through the entertainment alimentary system and be forgotten, except by the filmmakers and their accountants, until 2012, when another installment will rise to repeat the process. The forlorn minority of critics hope that, sometime before then, The Hurt Locker will have found the audience it deserves...
...doctors and hospitals for providing more services, and the regulated electricity rates that reward utilities for selling more power and building more plants - would not solve all our health-care and energy problems. But it would be a major step in the right direction. President Obama has pledged to pass massive overhauls of both sectors this year, but if Congress lacks the stomach for comprehensive reforms - and these days it's looking like Kate Moss in the stomach department - a more modest effort to realign perverse incentives could take a serious bite out of both crises. (See pictures of Cleveland...
Jarvis created a similarly impregnable institution. When he rode the wave of anger over skyrocketing property-tax assessments to pass Proposition 13 in 1978, he included a two-thirds vote requirement for the passage of any new taxes in California - an insurmountable obstacle built on populist allergy to any kind of new levy. Beholden to a tax-averse electorate, the state's liberals and moderates have attempted to live with Proposition 13 while continuing to provide the state services Californians expect - freeways, higher education, prisons, assistance to needy families and, very important, essential funding to local government and school districts...
...TIME Archive: "Do Charter Schools Pass the Test...
...committee to become yes votes," Doyle said. Many manufacturers and small businesses are afraid that increased energy prices might make them less competitive on the global market, and Doyle spent much of his day Wednesday and Thursday reassuring nervous members that he doesn't believe the bill will pass on the drastically higher energy costs they fear. (See the effects of climate change...