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President Obama has often talked about the mess he inherited from his predecessor, but on this occasion, the worst imaginings of the Bush Administration served him well. Authorities in Mexico said 150 people are believed to have been killed by swine flu. More than 100 in seven other countries are infected. But it almost doesn't matter that Obama has had no Health and Human Services Secretary to manage the response--or a surgeon general or a head of the CDC or a border-patrol commissioner. The contingency plans were already in place...
...league. Then the team was swept by Columbia in the first doubleheader of the Ivy League season, and it looked like Harvard would be delivering a repeat performance of a show that should have been cancelled after the first act.But this Crimson team would prove different than its predecessor. The next day Harvard swept Penn, and then proceeded to win six of its next eight Ivy League games, displaying a resilience that characterized the squad as much as shaky pitching and defense often did.A testament to the Crimson’s refusal to give up: Harvard outscored its opponents...
...leading voter polls? Because democracy raises expectations that the PAN and PRD have yet to meet. Calderon's predecessor, Vicente Fox, was the Lech Walesa of Mexico, a democratic hero who turned out to be a mediocre President. Calderon has pushed through some much needed economic changes like tax reform; but the drug war, which has produced more than 7,000 murders since the start of last year, has consumed much of his agenda. Almost half the population still lives in poverty, and that won't improve any time soon thanks to the U.S. economic calamity across the border. Meanwhile...
...Grappling with a previous administration's wrongdoings is not a new problem. President Gerald Ford will forever be remembered for the line in his inaugural speech - "Our long national nightmare is over" - and his pardon of his predecessor, Richard Nixon. "Ford had some of the same problems," says Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "Many people were so focused on getting Nixon or re-fighting Vietnam that the pressing agenda of the '70s was lost in the mists of the past...
...combination of candor and vision and the patient explanation of complex issues was Obama at his best - and more than any other moment of his first 100 days in office, it summed up the purpose of his presidency: a radical change of course not just from his predecessor, not just from the 30-year Reagan era but also from the quick-fix, sugar-rush, attention-deficit society of the postmodern age. The speech received ho-hum coverage on the evening news and in print - because, I suspect, it was more of a summation than the announcement of new initiatives. Quickly...