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...author of With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life (HarperCollins, spring 2009). He writes "The Boom Years" column for Money magazine and is a regular contributor to TIME magazine and Time.com. Visit his website, dankadlec.com, to view his latest work and see what he's up to next...
Schrag said that he thought that the event was a huge success. He said the symposium is “one of the great things Harvard does” to promote interest in environmental issues...
...reawakened consciousness to the plight of the uninsured is anchored within our moral framework. The intellectual backing necessary for its success, however, is not. The health-care debate serves as only one instance of this more general conflict between compassion and conscience. Our collective moral outlook appears purposefully structured, above all, to not offend and to avoid dogmatic statements that seem improvable. Even disapprobation toward a selfish man seems out of place. His hoarding might not be laudable, but each of us is hesitant to claim definite knowledge of his moral worth. In a widespread effort such as national medical...
...spend the first months of Obama's presidency dealing with the economic ruins of Bush's reign. "The Democrats have no choice but to do it on their own," said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "And at this point, their political survival depends upon legislative success, if need be with only Democratic votes...
...opposition. Democrats will be ready to trumpet health care reform if it passes, but it's not clear that will be enough to sway voters, who rank jobs and the economy as their most important issues. "Five or 10 years from now, maybe, this bill will seem as a success, who knows?" says Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "But I don't think it will give Democrats a lift next year." Perhaps. But most Democrats aren't eager to see what kind of lift the Republicans will get if the Democrat majority...