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...whether such a program creates more economic benefit than it does economic inefficiency by having the government dictate job creation. Consider that one criticism of the WPA was that it prevented people from moving to jobs where they would have been more economically productive - and actually slowed down the post-Depression recovery...
That's right, Ivygateblog.com—founded in 2006 and known for satirizing the good, the bad, and the ugly in the Ivy League—just made its first post in 19 days, an unusually long gap for a site that used to update frequently throughout each...
Update: And....now they're back with a post on...us? Sort of. Apparently a staffer sent out an angry e-mail to the Business leadership at The Crimson that includes, among other things, a FUCK YOU acrostic. Yep. Seriously...
...Obama's effort to downsize the war on terrorism can also free up time and resources for the rest of American foreign policy. During the Bush Administration, the post-9/11 agenda often seemed to constitute a good 75% of the U.S.'s international agenda. If Obama could eventually get that down to, say, 50%, it would free him up to devote attention to long-term challenges like climate change and the global economy that Bush gave short shrift...
Whether or not she would have weathered a Senate confirmation process for the federal prosecutor post is now moot because the nomination has been dropped. In any case, Hanes already has another job in Washington, a political appointment with the Justice Department at a post overseeing juvenile justice issues. Those close to Baucus are concerned that he let the Hanes revelation come up while he was in the middle of the health-care battle, possibly the most crucial legislative action of his long career...