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...This is riskier for taxpayers," says Andrew Jakabovics, an associate director at the Center for American Progress. Worse, it's not clear the program would do anything to boost the economy. Yes, consumer spending is dropping, but some economists think that is a function of confidence, not credit. "Paulson seems to be working under the impression that when it comes to consumer spending liquidity is the issue," says Dean Baker, who co-founded the Center for Economic Policy Research. "People aren't buying because they just lost a lot of money and might be about to lose their job." Lastly...
...said while making a poster for Saturday’s rally. “People can’t deny rights that they think they should have themselves especially if it doesn’t impact them negatively.” Not only did the issue of gay rights seem to transcend state-lines but international borders as well. Guo T. “Colin” Teo ’12 said the Proposition 8 rally was his first protest. “In Singapore it is illegal to protest,” Teo said...
...wrote the original film - but they are so tightly woven into the action that you almost hate to single them out. There are anthem-like chorus numbers and vaudeville throwbacks, political drinking songs ("Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher") and those with simple, John Lennon-like lyricism. But all of them seem utterly fresh and inseparable from the story they enliven and enhance. The show's centerpiece, of course, is Billy's dancing, which ranges from tap numbers to classical ballet, as well as a striking Act I finale in which Billy, his chance at an audition thwarted, erupts into an emotional...
...Prosecutors in the case seem to have followed Canary's advice. A few months later they petitioned the court to prevent Siegelman from arguing that politics had any bearing on the case against him. After trial, they persuaded the judge to use Siegelman's public statements about political bias - like the one Canary had flagged in her e-mail - as grounds for increasing his prison sentence. The judge's action is now one target of next month's appeal...
...fact, the G-20 leaders seem to agree with him already - at least in principle. From the Europeans, one hears the expected vague, warm rumblings of cooperation. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for strengthening structures like the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Forum that support the international free-market system, boosting transparency, integration and accountability. French President Nicolas Sarkozy likewise talks of defending and strengthening the system to ensure that another market free fall doesn't happen again...