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Columnist Joe Klein's "It's Economic Security, Stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein that a "drastically revised social safety net for American workers" would ease the collective American insecurities and provide a more rational and less emotional view of the growing global economy, I don't see that becoming a reality anytime soon. Universal health insurance and government-subsidized pensions smack of socialism and would inevitably draw protest, even from those who would benefit most...
...aggression against Iran—completely left out of the agenda of the “Freedom Concert”—would be on-the-ground Iranian progressives. “We are under pressure here both from hard-liners in the judiciary and that stupid George Bush,” human rights activist Emad Baghi told the Washington Post last week. “When he says he wants to promote democracy in Iran, he gives money to these outside groups, and we’re in here suffering. The pressure is on people who are trying...
It’s become a college ritual: go out, party hard, post pictures on facebook.com. It isn’t unusual for many students, including those at Harvard, to post photographic evidence of themselves doing stupid and sometimes illegal things—but they may not realize just who is looking at these photos. An article in The Daily Princetonian on March 9 revealed that the Princeton Department of Public Safety has used facebook.com in investigating student-related incidents at the New Jersey school. Students who had posted pictures on Facebook of themselves climbing buildings were confronted by Public...
...pile of money so I can sort of waste it, burn through it. It?s like a government subsidy, which is what (the Europeans) were able to deal with. I have my own little government subsidy that I?ve built myself, and now I can go and do stupid things with it. I mean, I?m old enough and I?m kind of retired...
...their favorite vintage video games. On April 1, Japan's Product Safety of Electrical Appliances and Materials Law (PSE), designed to prevent electrical fires, will prohibit the resale of 259 types of electrical goods made before April 2001?including some of the most coveted video-game machines. "It's stupid," fumes retro gamer Hiroshi Yamano, while shopping at the Super Potato secondhand-game shop in Akihabara, Tokyo's nerd mecca. "Who do they think they are protecting...