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...graduates can steer their careers where job growth is strong - education, health care and nonprofit programs like Teach for America, says Trudy Steinfeld, a career counselor at New York University. "Every college degree is not cookie cutter. It's what you have done during that degree to distinguish yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Job Market: Is a College Degree Worth Less? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...Obama has the charm, while Clinton has the finesse and finishing touch in implementing policy. While I have my reservations, I think they both will steer the ship of Washington well. Clinton's role on the global stage is to balance power. As internationalist Democrats, both Obama and Clinton ought to engage with the G-20 nations, building bridges abroad while promoting democracy for real. As far as domestic matters are concerned, the U.S. must spend less and save more if it is to remain a power beyond the Obama-Clinton era. P.J. John Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...turns out, however, lawmakers are reluctant to cede the power to steer extra money to hospitals in their own districts, and the House rejected the commission idea outright. While the Senate bill does contain a version of the commission, it has become weaker at every turn in the process. Under a deal to win hospitals' support for the bill, the Senate Finance Committee agreed they would be exempt from the commission's recommendations at least through 2019; doctors, hospices and medical-equipment suppliers would be beyond its reach entirely. Who is left? Maybe no one. "The exception for hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care Reform: What Happened to Cost Controls? | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

While it is appropriate for Harvard to hire portfolio experts to manage its funds, it is not appropriate for them to gamble with the educational mission and future of Harvard. Over the past decade, these experts have climbed out of the back seat and begun to steer Harvard’s economic course...

Author: By Wayne M. Langley | Title: At the Crossroads | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Carlos Basombrio, who served as a Deputy Interior Minister mid-decade, speculated that the fat-stealing episode could actually be a smokescreen cooked up in the Interior Ministry to steer attention away from the explosive Trujillo case. Spokespeople in Salazar's office said the minister could not comment on the pishtaco case because it was part of a police investigation. However, they added that all the talk in the media about a cover-up fed into a political climate heating up with the approach of the 2010 local elections. Still, one of Salazar's predecessors, Fernando Rospigliosi, called the pishtaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru's Fat-Stealing Gang: Crime or Cover-Up? | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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