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...When a potato becomes too hot to handle, Presidents like to appoint commissions. Never mind that the taxpayers are paying tens of billions of dollars annually to run military and veterans' health care, and that we elected lawmakers to make sure that the job is being done (and that the lawmakers, in turn, have created the Government Accountability Office to help them out, with its 3,000 employees and a $500 million annual budget). When all of these institutions fail, creating a commission is the equivalent of punting on third down: You're not going to score, but it suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fix Walter Reed: Name A Commission | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

...Potato or poppy? For the chosen people, it’s been an age-old debate over their chosen food. And last night, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker evoked health, terrorism, and evolution to end the dispute between latkes and hamantashen once...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latkes vs. Hamantashen: The Promised Food | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...criminal appellate lawyer accused the fried potato pancakes of increasing “America’s dependence...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latkes vs. Hamantashen: The Promised Food | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...combat the proclivity for the potato-based products, Dershowitz proposed a nine-step program that would focus on sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts), “a sweet food that closely resembles the hamantash...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latkes vs. Hamantashen: The Promised Food | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...times of famine, those of our ancestors who chose latkes and sour cream over hamantashen were more likely to survive and reproduce,” the potato-promoter said...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latkes vs. Hamantashen: The Promised Food | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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