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...exactly the wrong message; it leads people to believe that all they need is a purple finger and life will get better. The President seems a victim of that same delusion: he seems to believe that we can get away with promoting democracy through glorious rhetoric without doing the slow, expensive, heavy lifting of nation building. It is easy to talk about the need for decent education and health care if you're not charged with providing...
...Board of Economists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. "The outlook is basically for another Goldilocks kind ofyear," is how Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School and a former White House economist, summed it up. The U.S. economy is expected to slow somewhat but still grow at around 3%, while China could notch up another year of scorching 9% growth. This year there are even encouraging signs of vitality in Japan and Germany, the world's second and third largest economies, which have struggled for years to break out of their torpor. Lurking...
...luxury towers holding a total of about 43,000 units on or near the Strip and downtown. But the intense competition for the city's limited supply of contractors sent construction costs skyrocketing 30% last year, just as lending policies tightened, interest rates climbed and sales started to slow...
Thankfully, no one is waiting for another slow-motion catastrophe to unfold. Governors of more than 20 states have pledged emergency funds to help people, at least temporarily, pay for drugs they are having trouble getting. Insurers say they expect to have any remaining problems fixed in the next two weeks, although patient advocates are skeptical. And in response to the bipartisan outrage, House Republican leaders are considering a proposal, initially suggested by Democrats, to extend the deadline for signing up for the new benefit from May 15 to Dec. 31, a House G.O.P. aide tells TIME. The difficult transition...
...frog strategy may infuriate U.S. hard-liners who argue that it does little to hinder Iran's nuclear work right now. But proponents say that only the go-slow approach can win support from Russia and China. "The diplomacy with the Russians and the Chinese is very intense," says a key official. Rice, scheduled to travel to London next week for a conference on Afghanistan, may stop first in Moscow for talks with Russian officials. She needs Moscow's backing to win Beijing's--and ultimately to gain Iran's compliance. As for a step four to the strategy, there...