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...Does it seem fair?” Smith said. “I’m not just going to stand up here and say ‘this person’s work, that person’s work’...Everyone, as far as I’m concerned, across the FAS is working harder these days because of the situation we find ourselves in. [I could not] compare one person’s situation to another person’s situation...
...rest of the meeting proceeded with more smoking—take note compers, Mores seem to the Lampoon's cigarette of choice—and a litany of hyperbole about the checkered history of the magazine, its pranks, and comper contributions of their own pranks...
...face, it would seem to be a gift to Barack Obama's conservative critics, who have spent the summer painting the new Democratic President as a socialist who is eager to nationalize the entire health-care system. After all, the Administration's proposal to restructure the student-loan industry is, in many respects, much closer to an actual government takeover than its relatively tame market-driven health-reform plan. But as the House holds hearings and looks likely to pass a student-loan bill this week, it's clear that the education overhaul is not going to be the high...
...health-care debate would seem to help critics of the student-loan plan, who have no qualms about trying to link the two. "One of the points we're making is that the parallels to the health-care debate are really eerie," says Marrero. "The direct-loan program was created as a public option 16 years ago. It was touted as a form of competition that would encourage innovation and keep the industry honest. Sound familiar?" But rather than fuel significant opposition to the student-loan plan, the health-care firestorm has overshadowed it, making it harder for opponents...
...switch, I can tell you that there's a bunch more switches behind that one that you don't even see. It's not that simple." Still, for an Administration that fully expected a knock-down, drag-out fight over the student-loan plan, those kinds of problems probably seem pretty easy to solve...