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...Sen. Joseph Biden has some company - it turns out serious political gaffes aren't just for bumbling American presidential candidates. On Jan. 27 Japan's Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa gave a speech on the country's shrinking population in which he referred to Japanese women of childbearing age as "baby-making machines." He went onto explain that arresting population decline was difficult "because the number of baby-making machines and devices is fixed [in the population]; all we can do is ask them to do their best per head." The 71-year-old Yanagisawa did add, however, "that...
...Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. The first event of the series, “Campaign 2008: Looking Ahead,” will be held March 5 and is billed to feature advisers from the campaigns of Republican candidates including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. Advisers from the Democratic contenders Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, and Sen. Barack H. Obama of Illinois will participate in the following event, scheduled for March 19. IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen...
...passed in the House this week now moves to the Senate, where Democrats have a slim 51-49 majority. Wednesday’s vote showed glimmers of bipartisanship—229 Democrats voted for the bill along with 57 Republicans. Two Democrats and 138 Republicans voted against it. And Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, issued a statement saying the reframing of the Pell Grant debate “shows how a Democratic Congress is changing the nation’s priorities...
...with the grain rather than against the grain of the market system that has produced all this potential.” Both said it was essential to address inequality to combat an increasing shift towards protectionism. However, some of the committee members such as Sen. James Webb (D-Va.), who once wrote that globalization and illegal immigration are leading to “a different life and a troubling future” for middle-class Americans, were less enthusiastic about free trade’s effect on the United States. Robert Z. Lawrence, the Williams Professor of International Trade...
...aisle in Washington to avoid settling into their newly dug niches. The bill passed last week is just a start, and we hope that Congress solidifies and deepens its commitment to higher education by reaching out to poorer students through an expansion of Pell grants, as proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.). We hope that Congress and the President have enough respect for our future to lay a solid, inclusive foundation for it today...