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...decade. Furthermore, Gingrich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R.'s New Deal. Smoot and Hawley were Republicans, and the act that bears their names was passed in 1930, during the Hoover Administration. If Gingrich is unable to get his facts straight about the last century, why should we listen to his suggestions for this one? Lee Poole, PHOENIX...
...seat in a Black Hawk helicopter to a younger soldier who wanted the thrill of sitting there and who ended up being the only one killed when the chopper flipped on takeoff. Or maybe it was the day Andersson's squad had to destroy a speeding suicide van headed straight at their checkpoint, despite the women and children inside...
Obama has a community organizer's appreciation for human motivation, and his rhetoric often sounds as if it's straight out of a behavioral textbook. He has also read Nudge, which inspired him to pick his friend Sunstein - best known as a constitutional scholar - to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the obscure but influential corner of the Office of Management and Budget where federal regulations are reviewed and rewritten. "Cass is one of the people in the Administration he knows best," says Thaler, the founder of behavioral economics and co-author of Nudge. "He knew what...
...rolls into the weekend winners of 14 straight, including a dominating four-game sweep of Yale and Brown last weekend, in which Cornell outscored its opponents...
...yesterday’s loss with a bang, courtesy of an increasingly familiar source of offensive firepower.After tying the game at one in the bottom of the second, Harvard filled the bases for senior left fielder Matt Rogers. On the first pitch he saw, Rogers blasted a grand slam straight down the left-field line to give him six home runs and 23 RBI on the season, totals which are tied for first and second in the Ivy League, respectively.“We had the bases loaded and when we saw Matty coming to the plate, we were feeling...