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...auto-industry loan is that the automakers' problems are viewed as systemic, not short-term. "No one in this building or in this Administration has a plan for the long-term viability of the auto industry," says the senior Treasury official. "It's just not on the shelf." Without such a plan, the Administration has decided that any short-term loan should come from existing money from Congress for the auto industry's modernization...
...start the second, it was the Engineers that struck first when forward Paul Kerins scored unassisted for the short-handed goal. Three minutes later, a Harvard penalty gave RPI a man advantage, which it used to open up a two-goal lead, as Matt Angers-Goulet went top shelf.“When you’re on the road, it’s really important to come out hard,” captain Jimmy Fraser said. “I thought we came out a little flat.”Rolocek responded for the Crimson three minutes later...
With Obama headed for the White House, many of these changes could have a short shelf life. The true environmental legacy of George W. Bush will be in what he didn't do - address climate change. Since Bush took office, EDF's Patton notes, the U.S. has released more than 50 billion tons of greenhouse gases. "This is a sobering legacy for the nation," she says. "It's time for America to move forward." That job will fall to Bush's successor, Barack Obama...
...Whose side will Obama be on? The old Ted Kennedy liberals he re-inspired, the Blue Dog Democrats he courted, the new arrivals from purple and even red districts whose shelf life depends on a centrist agenda? He has talked about the need to fix entitlements, but try to pin him down on the Audacity of How, and he vanished in a foam of contingency. He has promised to end the war in Iraq responsibly, but the tension between end and responsibility tightens now. He voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, but there are bound...
...chocolate choux. During a trip to Japan last year, I had eaten a not insignificant number of these pastries, and I relished the opportunity to reacquaint myself with their virtues. But when I sidled up to a Tokyo store's cream-puff section - yes, there is a fridge shelf dedicated to this particular genre of baked goods in many Japanese groceries - to my great distress, my favorite dessert was nowhere to be found. Like so many food and beverage products in Japan's relentless market, it had been cast aside for newer fads: I found chestnut cream puffs, pumpkin cream...