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...economy. Usually it's not so much. But every once in a while, like when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932 and Reagan in 1980, the effect can be dramatic. Reagan's policies, together with some luck and the inflation-killing zeal of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, helped the U.S. economy break out of its 1970s malaise into a new era of flexibility, innovation and growth. And this era didn't end when Reagan left office in 1989. Subsequent Presidents, even Democrat Bill Clinton, followed more or less in Reagan's footsteps...
...advantage of this exhibition, organized by Paul Schimmel of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and installed in its New York City venue by Nan Rosenthal, that it doesn't have to give space to Rauschenberg's all too massive later output, that endless madcap extrusion. The combines were among his indisputable triumphs, and seeing them on their own makes you realize all over again their liberating power. They offer you a puzzle and dare you to unpuzzle it. Go ahead and try?as long as you're not the type who needs all the pieces...
Representative Paul Hodes expressed discontent with the “mess” wrought by the Bush administration as he spoke to members of the Harvard College Democrats at the club’s fourth annual Leadership Award Gala in Pforzheimer House on Saturday. Hodes, a Democrat from New Hampshire, said that the election of Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 would be like providing a “third term for President Bush.” “Politics is like driving a car,” Hodes said. “If you want...
...1970s, Hayden's argument wouldn't have been surprising. That era, which saw the birth of the modern environmental movement (the first Earth Day was observed in 1970), was obsessed with the idea of global limits, that without drastic intervention, we were doomed to overpopulation. Books like Paul Erhlich's The Population Bomb warned that the Earth was reaching the end of its carrying capacity, and that within decades, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. The only way to avoid this Malthusian fate was rigid population control, which many environmentalists were in favor...
...only the second time such an international public appeal has been made. In the fall of 2007, Interpol published images in media outlets worldwide that drew tips leading Thai police to arrest a man named Christopher Paul Neil, whom they accused of sexual abuse and who went on trial earlier this year. The lightning effectiveness of the tactic raises the question: why not do it more often...