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...such an accord will not come easy. In fact, the House bill was pronounced DOA in the Senate six hours before the House even voted on it. Senate Republicans are balking at a deal they claim does not go far enough in demanding that General Motors, Ford and Chrysler prove they have viable long-term business plans before qualifying for a second round of loans in March. All told, the Big Three have asked for $34 billion in bridge loans, though many economists say it will take up to $200 billion to really reinvent Detroit; negotiators have agreed to grant...
...look at two films and two books of 2008 that just love to hate. Films “Saw V:” Thomas Hobbes would have been proud of this film, a misanthrope’s delight. Films like this seem to exist only to prove Hobbes’s rage-fueled philosophical vision: that man cares only about his self-interest and that life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Characters self-inflict tracheometries, saw their arms off, murder their compatriots to survive, and still end up dead. “Punisher...
...always described himself as a black militant. His optimism inspired him to predict an Obama win months in advance; his claim that the Treasury “gotta put [Mr. Obama’s] face on the five-thousand dollar bill,” however, may prove to be less prescient. —Jake G. Cohen is an outgoing Arts Chair. His thesis is actually about France; it’s pretty boring...
...Blagojevich scandal will prove to be a distraction for Obama, a Chicago pol made good who was hoping to put old-fashioned Chicago politics in his rearview mirror. The criminal complaint produced no evidence that Obama or his aides have done anything wrong. Blagojevich was, in fact, recorded complaining that Obama's people were "not willing to give me anything except appreciation." Obama himself maintains that he never talked to Blagojevich about the Senate seat, and during the recent campaign, the two men kept their distance from each other...
CORRECTION: The Dec. 10 article, "Smith Asks for Budget Cuts" incorrectly calculated that eight new senior faculty and seven new junior faculty will join FAS if the pared-down searches all prove successful. In fact, seven new senior faculty positions and eight new junior faculty positions are currently being considered...