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...slash the deficit, not eliminate it, and there are certainly wasteful government expenditures worth cutting. However, it is important that Obama’s message to the American people is an unwavering pledge to end the economic plunge at all costs. Instead, this announcement sends mixed signals. Obama recently signed a $787 billion stimulus package, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, into law. Tim Geithner just set out the skeleton for a plan to rescue the banking system that could cost up to $2.5 trillion. Obama is also holding fast to his campaign promises to reform health care and education...
February 24th in Ticknor Lounge from 7-8pm: Learn more about Asian health issues and sign up to get involved in any of these student organizations...
...Cornell and Columbia, the first time it lost both weekend games at home in the league since 1968. And yet it happened again the next time up, with Harvard’s victory coming on the heels of Dartmouth’s 69-59 win the night before. A sign of the Quaker’s former dominance over those two northern schools is that in the 51 previous weekends those teams took a trip down to Philadelphia, Penn had never lost both games. That has changed now and Quakers look set for a second-straight mediocre Ivy season after...
Students can be very tough on themselves. It concerns me that some carry a very narrow definition of success and others see asking for help as a sign of weakness. Years ago, freelance writer Linda Weltner shared the following story attributed to Norris Lee in The Boston Globe...
...some cases, fees were deducted or the gifts were taxed to the point there was little left, according to local police. Families in Quang Binh province complained that they were required to sign receipts acknowledging they had received the handouts, but some villagers say more than 90% of the funds were siphoned off by petty bureaucrats. In the province of Quang Ngai, dozens say they were forced to donate to a so-called rural traffic fund. Other destitute villagers reported they had to contribute to a fund for the poor. Investigations of these and scores of similar cases have begun...