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...American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and all other defense and discretionary spending was financed solely by deficit spending. In short, even if we decided that the government’s only job was to manage these entitlement programs and cut all other spending to zero, we’d still only break even—our $12.7 billion of existing national debt would remain unpaid. The magnitude of the problem has become so great that it can no longer be ignored...
...this sum is not enough to guarantee every Harvard undergraduate funding this summer, administrators said, so OCS is planning programming for students who are still looking for a productive way to spend their summer...
...She’s continued to bring a lot to the table,” Bosworth said. “The thing about Ariel is that she gets along with everyone. She comes across as very friendly and nice, but she still takes racing very seriously. She’s a very intense competitor and she’s not afraid to give direct feedback to her teammates to make sure they’re making all the sacrifices they need to in order to make the race happen...
...regrets, and his poetry. At one point, he describes “a furious itch that raises welts” over his body; elsewhere he writes, “My lust is in great health, but, if it happens / that all my towers shrivel to dribbling sand, / joy will still bend the cane-reeds with my pens / elation....” Yet although the poet’s fixation on physiognomy is somewhat off-putting, it also serves as a reminder of his basic humanity. The speaker in these poems is not only a craftsman rendering his visions of life...
...summer, several of the newly coined working groups had yet to meet, even as the deficit was slashed in half. Still, Smith reiterated their crucial role in the ongoing budgeting process...