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...that the country is on the wrong track. They know that SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT but they don't know how to describe it or, more importantly, how to stop it." The book's pox-on-both-parties populism evokes the quixotic campaigns of Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, but with an eerie sound track...
...Michael Simon, associate director of Harvard Hillel, said that his organization often works with the Harvard Bookstore to bring in speakers Hillel could not necessarily attract alone. In the past, the team has co-hosted events for such speakers as writer Michael Chabon and diplomat Dennis Ross. “We have an opportunity to bring in writers who are grappling with the questions of what it means to be Jewish and what it means to be human,” Simon said. “Asking these questions about sexuality is particularly important for our students...
...stereos. That demand for U.S. debt kept interest rates low. By the early 1990s, though, the national debt - the accumulated product of those years of deficits - approached 50% of GDP, and bond investors abroad and at home seemed to shy away from Treasuries, driving interest rates up. Also, billionaire Ross Perot spent a good part of his fortune making deficits into a political issue. In response, Washington focused for a few years on getting rid of the shortfall. With a lot of help from the late-1990s tech boom, it succeeded. As already noted, this deficit-fighting consensus disintegrated...
...Wear Fur” or “Don’t Eat Meat,” PETA has decided that one way they can get people’s attention is by showing pictures of naked women. One particularly fun one shows a nude Charlotte Ross of “NYPD Blue,” holding a rabbit, along with the slogan, “I’d rather show my buns than wear fur.” Or take their un-aired Super Bowl commercial from this year, which featured women essentially having sex with vegetables.Why does...
...Pelosi can't resolve the public-plan standoff and loses more veteran moderates like Mike Ross, she'll have to strong-arm vulnerable freshmen and sophomore lawmakers to vote for the bill in order to pass it - a big gamble in an uncertain electoral atmosphere. So skittish are a few vulnerable Democrats that they are actually considering skipping President Obama's much-touted speech on health-care reform before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9, for fear of being caught on camera applauding any health-care initiatives. "There are a lot of freaked-out moderate and swing-district...