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...rebate like this summer's would generate $1.22 on the dollar. Extending unemployment benefits would bring in $1.63; infrastructure spending, $1.59; and a temporary increase in food-stamp benefits, $1.73. Making the Bush income tax cuts permanent would bring in just 31˘ on the dollar. So spending increases would seem to be in order. Bush has resisted that so far--and may continue to resist. In January that won't matter anymore. Then we get to find out if fiscal stimulus really can save...
...Billy Bartley, the son of the restaurant’s founder, is manning the counter while grilling six patties and 12 burger buns at the same time. Constantly chuckling and joking with his customers and employees, Bartley does not seem busy at all. The captivating smell of burgers and fries and the steaming heat from the grills are filling up the Cottage so much that one can nearly taste them...
...refer, of course, to that singular bane of male existence, “Gossip Girl.” Since making the jump to the small screen last fall, Cecily von Ziegesar’s series of novels has ensnared a whole new audience in its pernicious spell. But it seems that “Gossip Girl” (or, at least, “Gossip Girl” copycatting) has decided to re-infect the literary world. A number of recent novel covers seem to evoke a certain aura of Upper East Side teen girl-dom, almost...
...Even as a historic presidential campaign spent months demonstrating the need for unity and the fruitlessness of the divisive politics of morality, the states seem to be picking sides on the intractable issue of same-sex marriage. More troubling than the simple passage of Proposition 8 in California are the national reverberations such an event might trigger. Even the thwarted opponents of gay marriage in the state of Massachusetts might take heart and be reinvigorated in light of this development...
...Medvedev’s position on this missile-shield standoff has been deliberately provocative. That posturing worked: many in America have argued that the United States should not allow this development to threaten diplomatic relations by upsetting the Russians. These arguments, however, seems to want it both ways—they insist that the United States can neither back down and seem weak, nor prioritize a controversial missile shield over calm negotiation. Diplomacy can often work, and President-elect Obama will hopefully engage more countries in level dialogue than his predecessor. The Russians, however, constitute a special case...