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...ratings for her TV show are among the highest at CNBC. She promotes savings accounts for TD Ameritrade and hawks identity-theft kits on her website. Requests for her to speak, at $80,000 a pop, are flowing in from all over the world. It's a sign of just how bad things are that watching her is so compelling--in a rubbernecking sort of way--because people have done such reckless things with their money...
...jobs for British workers.” Though the rhetoric of short-term political gain is attractive, it is definitely detrimental for everyone playing the game. Economic nationalism gives rise to a prisoner’s dilemma in which the worst possible outcome prevails. If the 1930s are any sign, this short-sighted approach leads directly to further contraction of economic activity. And we know what that is called...
...could be an artist.’”Past ADF recipients have gone on to pursue a professional career in the arts, Bergmann says, citing a “real success story” of Madelyn M. Ho ’08, who signed on with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, a New York City contemporary dance group.Emily R. Kaplan ’08-’09 was awarded $3,000 last year to take a class about children’s book illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design over the summer...
When it comes to Congressional earmarks, it's hard to decide who's the biggest hypocrite. The current media favorite is President Obama, who sought earmarks as a senator, criticized earmarks as a candidate, and now plans to sign a spending bill stuffed with nearly 9,000 earmarks. But what about earmark-addicted Republicans, who oversaw an unprecedented explosion of earmarks when they controlled Congress, resisted efforts by Obama and other Democrats to inject accountability into the earmark process, and even grabbed over 40% of the earmarks in the current bill, yet have the gall to blast Obama's cave...
...Cuba's Foreign Ministry actually intended to encourage a U.S. change in Cuba policy? On the one hand, says Frank Mora, a Cuba expert at the National War College in Washington, "putting in someone who's a technocrat and not an ideologue will be perceived as a small sign of something positive in Washington." Then again, says Mora, it's difficult to tell if it also indicates that Raúl is "preparing himself for the eventuality of Washington making more of these gestures." Rodriguez's appointment, as well as a host of others Raúl made this week...