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...Even if a climate-change bill bogs down in Congress this year, the consensus is that passage of some kind of carbon-capping legislation would likely pass in 2009. That might seem unforgivably late to Europeans, but the effect on stalled international efforts to combat global warming would be enormous. The U.S. could take a leadership position in negotiations, while China and India - which use American inaction as an excuse for their own foot-dragging - would come under greater pressure to control their rapidly increasing greenhouse-gas emissions. "The world conversation will be joined in a very different way," says...
...This maverick reputation, so prized for its general-election appeal, makes it difficult for McCain to pass the primary threshold. As was the case in 2000, McCain in 2008 has yet to win even a plurality of Republican votes in a presidential primary outside his home state of Arizona and the generally liberal Northeast...
...Senate asked the President not to talk specifics when he rolled out the package the next day. And the President and his aides complied, offering only broad stroke outlines of the package as the White House press corps grilled them with question after question. Pelosi says she expects to pass the stimulus package sometime before Congress breaks for the Presidents' Day holidays later in February...
...tangible difference in the lives of the masses who voted her in. Her legacy is one not of democracy but of kleptocracy. Her will, which named her husband as her successor, underlines her lack of commitment to democracy. To her, political power was something you could inherit and pass on to family members. Pakistan has been declared a failed state, but I for one am optimistic. The economy is growing at 6-7% a year. I see a country with potential that has never been governed well. It is now up to educated, moderate Pakistanis to finally stand...
...fine employees of McKinsey & Company. You don’t seem excited. Maybe we should go to square one. Just to make sure, you are looking for a lucrative job in the private sector, right? No? Not the...the public sector? (Several moments of tense silence pass.) Get the fuck...