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Begin Again The reset button has been pushed. So what will be the protocols and look and feel of the America about to emerge...
...that we'll lose focus on global warming? Yes, but I do think there is focus on this. Rahm Emanuel has a great line: "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Jeff Immelt at General Electric has another great line, that this isn't a recession, but a reset. It's a reexamination of how we've been living. Maybe the McMansion era is crashing to an end. It doesn't mean that you can't have a big house, but the ethos of what you need is changing. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Administration has a chance to hit the "reset" button before the Congressional debate over the Budget begins in earnest. The rosy forecasts presented with the document will be powerful leverage for those who want to discredit that entire package as the work of charlatans who want to make the results of their recovery plan look better than they possibly could be. Changing the basic assumptions behind the Budget means going through the entire document, program by program, and resetting the investments and returns on the investment for each one. The $1.75 trillion deficit would grow, or some programs would have...
...junior co-captain Alexandra Clarke and sophomore Kate Mills—and six athletes who combined to earn All-Ivy honors in eight events have all returned from last year, and have risen to the challenge to lead this young team in the pool. Clarke, who last year reset her own school record in the 1,000-yard freestyle and placed 21st in the 1,650-yard freestyle at the NCAA Championships, was second to All-American Tiger Alicia Aemisegger in both events at Ivies last year. Mills placed in the top four in three events at the Ivy meet...
...obsession with process in the Obama Administration as well, but this is a necessary corrective. Rather than making peremptory judgments, pro and con, about foreign leaders, as Bush did, Obama seems predisposed to see every foreign policy problem in its global context - the decision to press the reset button with Russia, for example, could have a profound influence on the start of talks with Iran, especially if the Russians agree to help dissuade the Iranians from an illegal nuclear program (in return for a U.S. pledge to halt the antimissile defense system that Russia fears). Every decision will be evaluated...