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Life after calendar reform includes holiday parties, final papers, and secret snowflakes. Oh, and exams before Christmas. Thanks, Harvard! In between hours of studying at Lamont, take some time for a nightcap...or a daycap. Or a mid-afternooncap. FM gives you the lowdown on where to find the best holiday drinks in the Square...
...Martha Coakley will go to Washington to fight every day to create good jobs with good benefits and to get health reform with a strong public option. You can trust her to get results in the Senate just as she has as your attorney general." - Former President Bill Clinton, in a robocall sent to more than 500,000 Massachusetts voters shortly before the primary...
...ability to pay its $12 trillion debt is tenuous, and Obama has yet to take any clear steps, beyond rhetoric, to reassure investors. His 2010 budget, announced last February, projected medium-term deficits that even Obama's aides agree are unsustainable. And by most accounts, his health care reform package, if it passes, is unlikely to yield the clear long-term savings that Obama once suggested...
...Israelis who are letting a precious opportunity pass: the West Bank Palestinian leaders President Mahmoud Abbas and, especially, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are the best partners for peace in Israel's history. Abbas and Fayyad have been astonishingly successful at fulfilling the road-map obligations to reform their security forces, resulting in a near cessation of violence in or from the West Bank. Indeed, the most notable occurrence in the past few years was something that did not occur: when Israel invaded Gaza last January, the West Bank did not erupt. Fayyad has instituted financial transparency, lured talented technocrats into...
...National debt is expected to rise to 125% of GDP in 2010, the highest in the euro zone. "If you want an example of a political élite that thought membership of the euro zone was a panacea," says Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform in London, "you don't need to look further than Greece. They're in very serious trouble." (See pictures of the global economic crisis...