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...crisis, even if that meant cutting welfare spending and raising taxes. A generation of economists inspired by John Maynard Keynes taught us that this is precisely the wrong thing to do. Government deficits in a recession are good, the Keynesians argued, because they stimulate demand. The Bush Administration, which ran substantial deficits in the boom years, looks set to run an even larger deficit...
...Zardari and U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin (in which Zardari called Palin "gorgeous" and said he'd like to hug her) has been must-see TV on local networks and has drawn tens of thousands of viewers on YouTube. While some laughed off Zardari's behavior--one station ran the clip with a romantic Urdu ballad sound track--many called it unbecoming of a head of state. One mosque leader issued a fatwa against him, calling his gushing un-Islamic...
...Lundholm Gymnasium, the Harvard women’s volleyball team pulled out a clutch performance to beat the University of New Hampshire, 3-2. “We wanted to be tough heading into this game,” sophomore Mikaelle Cormie said. “New Hampshire ran offense inside-out so we worked hard to set a strong solid block and our block allowed us to play really good defense. "Our strong block is really disturbing to their hitters and took them out of their game and helped push the energy in our favor...
...year. Why should I be asked to bail out a bunch of overpaid greedy heads of companies like AIG, Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae? ... If you're going to pass this bill, then it is only right that you the government pay off my mortgage. All of you ran back to Washington and took care of these overpaid CEOs, but when gas went up to $4 a gallon, you did nothing...
Yuriko Koike is a Japanese politician with an engaging manner, a fine track record as a cabinet minister, a worldly outlook and the sort of fresh approach that Japanese politics so desperately needs. None of that did her much good when she recently ran for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party - she received just 46 ballots out of a possible 527. Why did she do so badly? Not just because of some residual male chauvinism, perhaps, but also because she was too obviously the candidate of reform, of liberalization - in other words, she was the candidate...