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...Administration has veered from one half-baked solution to another. Wall Street panicked, but so did the White House, and in that panic, they had a hard time figuring out what to do. The weeks that Paulson and Bush spent pushing Paulson's orignal bailout plan - in the face of massive opposition - were weeks that could have been spent actually fixing the problem. At this point, we need a comprehensive approach. Another failed faint attempt could be disastrous. Here's a five-step, comprehensive approach...
Andrew J. Crutchfield ’12, who spent the morning at the campaign office calling swing voters in New Hampshire, was one of the Harvard Republicans waiting to meet her when she came inside to talk to the volunteers...
...Stoll weaves—or, rather, interjects—a stilted biography of John Adolphus Etzler, the titular “Mad Inventor” (who you’ve never heard of because he never invented anything that actually worked). Etzler’s life and energies were spent striving to harness the earth’s natural forces—wind, current, sun, rotation—believing that if he did so he’d be able to create enough wealth to sustain more than a trillion people. Infinite wealth could be generated, he thought, by concentrating...
...theory that economic stability and prosperity are necessary for a successful democratic system. He discusses democracy in economically weak Mali at length. Although it has few valuable resources and a subsistence-farm-based economy, the people are genuinely content with the political situation. Drawing on the time he has spent there, Traub convincingly conveys the situation in Mali from a variety of perspectives, allowing the reader to see the social desires that democracy fulfills there. As one Mali citizen declares, “Now you can go and speak as you wish. Democracy has erased the fear and given free...
...Spent, it ceases, flows purling, widely flowing...