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...Obama did add his old hope riff at the end of a question-and-answer session later in Scranton, Pa., but it seemed an afterthought. The bulk of his presentation, especially the Q&A, was solid protein. He offered Hillaryesque, do-good details: If we return to the national obesity levels of 1980, it would save $1 trillion in health-care costs! He claimed that the mortgage-lending industry had spent $185 million on lobbying over the past decade, and Big Pharma had spent $1 billion. He gave comprehensive answers about trade, immigration and military procurement. He was detailed...
This spring break, over reading for which the due date had come and gone, I noticed the drone of parental concern. The silence was eventually breached in the middle of a Heidegger session: “Are you having any fun over there?” I told them “yes,” again—phenomenology is fun. But, really, where would I be without the uncompromising contingent of the “chill” I felt comfortable presenting to our future applicant? Probably at Lamont—so I can’t help...
...year. Recognized by his peers as an exceptionally shrewd politician - one of his predecessors described him as "the most cunning of them all" - he played a key role in Ireland's epic economic transformation. He was also dedicated to the Northern Ireland peace process, once flying into a negotiation session directly from his mother's funeral. And he built on that to forge Irish relations with Britain that are at their best in a long and troubled history...
...powerbrokers successfully,” Frankel said. But, Frankel continued, while Fox had difficulty getting his policies passed by the Mexican Congress, Calderón has had more success. Mexican national Alejandro Rocha, a student at Harvard Business School, said that Fox was evasive during the question and answer session. “It’s great to see someone who changed the 72-year ruling party, [but] I think he didn’t really answer any questions,” Rocha said. But Cecilia Venegas ’11, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico...
...weapons in China during the war. And there are deniers in the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, too: Jin Matsubara, a Democratic parliamentarian known for denying the killing of Chinese civilians by the Japanese Imperial Army in Nanjing in 1937-1938, recently used his speaking time at a Diet session dedicated to discussing the weapons to question their very existence...