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...sector deficit by adopting a package of revenue-producing and cost-cutting measures. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared that we are in the midst of a fiscal crisis. In spite of those dire conditions, our lawmakers wouldn't dream of cutting their congressional pork-barrel funds. President Arroyo, quo vadis? Joel R. Hinlo Las Pi?as City, the Philippines...
...current House advising system is poorly executed and overburdened; Nathans is right when she insists that saddling the Houses with an additional 100 first-years each will only exacerbate problems. But the answer is not sticking with the status quo, which leaves many first-years deeply dissatisfied. The current system, which is drastically inconsistent and at times downright unfair, often provides first-years with little beyond impersonal study card signings and, if lucky, a couple of superficial sessions of stock questions and answers. Many first-years are advised by proctors who tend to be too far removed from the Harvard...
...another interesting reversal of expected positions, the Republicans are the ones favoring radical changes to the status quo in all sorts of situations. Republicans now want to remove large numbers of troops from Germany and South Korea, democratize the Middle East, follow the “Bush doctrine” of preemption, and amend the constitution to ban gay-marriage. While not textbook “liberal” positions, these policies are nonetheless very serious changes to the status quo. “Liberal” can have all sorts of different meanings, but in modern American parlance...
...about the U.S. in the Iraqi quagmire. And when Iraq was raised, it was done in a deceptive and simpleminded way. Even John McCain, who gave the most serious foreign policy speech of the week, presented a false choice: "Our choice [in Iraq] wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat...
...Japan's status quo isn't what it used to be. Three of the country's largest banks are engaged in an unusual corporate-takeover battle that could develop into something unheard of in the country's clubby and consensus-driven banking community: a hostile takeover bid. The combatants are Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Japan's second- and third-largest banks, respectively. They are vying to merge with UFJ Holdings, the sickest and smallest of the country's Big Four banks, in a bidding war that highlights the degree to which government reform...