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...euphemistic lexicon that pervades locker-room culture - calling punishing hits "dings" or being knocked unconscious "getting your bell rung" - has contributed to a perception that the problem isn't serious. "We need to use more medical terms here, as opposed to slang," says Tennessee Titans center Kevin Mawae, president of the NFL Players Association. "The language makes light of the situation." (See pictures of the Arizona Cardinals...
...tabloid revelations? People sources suggest that even three years after she discovered the affair, Elizabeth never quite found a way to trust John again and checked up on him constantly, a strain that proved too much for both of them. As the old marriage saying goes, The problem is not whom you lie with. It's whom...
...rebuild our economy - to create the sophisticated, high-paying jobs we need - as long as we have an archaic, industrial-age school system. It's also hard to keep a strong democracy with a citizenry that is increasingly uneducated and ill informed. No, teachers' unions are not the only problem here. Troglodytic local school boards and apathetic parents are just as bad. But the unions, and their minions in the Democratic Party, have been a reactionary force in education reform for too long. Barack Obama began to change that last year with Race to the Top. It's a fight...
...Obama's bank tax - designed not only to make taxpayers whole but also to discourage excessive risk-taking - came from Geithner. And so did most of the Administration's plans to address the too-big-to-fail problem, create an independent consumer agency for financial products and otherwise overhaul the regulatory system that failed so dramatically in 2008. Geithner sees big banks not as evil empires to be toppled but as moneymaking machines to be restrained, so that the panic and bailouts of two years ago are never repeated. Just because it's populist, he likes to say, doesn...
...problem, as usual, is the Senate - and, in an election year, the calendar. Republicans are already suggesting that Obama's belated push for the Volcker rule and other add-ons will require new hearings and more delay, and that its line-in-the-sand approach to the consumer agency is a formula for gridlock. Meanwhile, in the post-Massachusetts political climate - and with so much industry cash sloshing around in Washington - centrist Democrats seem to fear getting tagged as Obama liberals more than they fear getting tagged as Wall Street water carriers. And the White House would rather see reform...