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...back on their feet and working for a common purpose. Some might argue that financing artists should be low on our priority totem pole. But artists are taxpayers, rent-payers, and consumers—just like everyone else. This country has 100,000 nonprofit arts groups, which employ some six million people and contribute $167 billion to the economy per year. Of course, in the long term we could use more engineers and science teachers, but right now we really need more working Americans exchanging goods and services...
Harvard is looking for its third-consecutive Ivy title. If it wins, it would mark the first football threepeat since Dartmouth earned three in a row from 1990-92. If Penn, which is on a six-game winning streak, takes this year’s title, it would be its first since...
...this will be no easy task, either. Winters’ receivers will be going up against against Penn corners Jonathan Moore and Chris Wynn, who have combined for six interceptions this season...
...Over the past six months, it's become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us. And some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day, and to continue to do so, in the most honest and direct way possible." - Announcing his departure on Lou Dobbs Tonight...
...given investment is necessary, and what's palpable in China is the sense of forward motion, of energy. No foreigner - at least not one I've met in five years of living here - even bothers denying it. And the Chinese take it for granted. When a brand-new six-lane highway opened in suburban Shanghai in October, Zhong Li Ping, who shuttles migrant workers to the city and back to their hometowns, said, "I don't know what took them so long." In truth, it took about two years - roughly the time it would take to get the environmental...