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This May, Barack Obama will deliver his first commencement address as president. He will not journey to West Point, as Bill Clinton did for his first such oration, to prove his patriotic gratitude for the men in uniform. Nor will he return, a devoted and loyal son, to one of his almae matres, either in the Ivy League or Occidental College. He will not even patronize with his presence an institution run by the states that his federal budget will bloat with generous stimulus disbursements...
...Netanyahu may viscerally oppose this plan. Even if he does not, selling it to his right-wing coalition partners may prove impossible. They refuse to divide Jerusalem and want to plow ahead with more Jewish settlements in the West Bank. As part of a coalition dealmaker, Netanyahu pledged to allow the construction of a new settlement of 3,500 dwellings outside Jerusalem that would surround the city's Arab neighborhoods. And his choice for Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who has pronounced anti-Arab views and is under criminal investigation for allegedly taking bribes, has left the Americans and the Europeans...
Well, City Weekly may prove to be just another casualty in the slow but certain death of print journalism. But it seems as if even Internet-based news, with all its “convenience” and “speed” and “accessibility,” needs gimmicks to attract readers. Apparently, if you send your picture to the people at Cantabrigia, you get a prize...
...system have a ruinous potential in our economy. Yet these bodies have been allowed to operate with a minimal level of oversight for years. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s call for an expansion of financial regulation and increased transparency faces a long struggle through Congress but will prove a crucial framework for promoting future economic stability. Mangers at hedge funds and other unregulated market players are often reluctant to open their bets to scrutiny or reveal their positions in the market because doing so allows competitors to mirror trades and dilute profits. Many also view the paperwork...
...really important for us to sweep these two games,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “We had no doubt in our minds that we were going to win both of these games. We set out to prove to Penn that we were the better team and we did it.”HARVARD 5, PENN 2The Crimson seized the lead early and never looked back, scoring consistently throughout the game to build on its advantage. “We kept scoring each inning,” freshman first baseman Whitney Shaw said...