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...Americans. As it does in most other advanced democracies, it need not promote any specific artists, but rather serve as an economic engine and revitalize the national spirit broadly. The department could directly invest in arts education, museums, libraries, public radio, and public television. It could create special task forces—for example, a young “artist corps” for low-income schools and neighborhoods, an original Obama campaign idea. It could establish federal writing projects to promote cultural literacy and historical memory. As a bonus, culture department officials could serve as popular diplomatic emissaries...
...this will be no easy task, either. Winters’ receivers will be going up against against Penn corners Jonathan Moore and Chris Wynn, who have combined for six interceptions this season...
...don’t expect to see a crowd of Jimmy Neutrons. In reality, according to Arvind Thiagarajan, MIT freshman and “Problem Czar” (the title reflects the monstrous task of compiling and editing all the problems), there’s more to these kids than just numbers...
...hard to overestimate the complexity of Reid's task. His first challenge, which is expected to come as soon as he can obtain cost estimates for his bill from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), will be to get the legislation onto the floor, with a normally routine procedural vote known as a "motion to proceed." While Reid doesn't have his 60 votes locked down for it, the betting is that he will. More uncertain is whether he will find that many to get the bill out of the Senate, which will require a second, more contentious vote...
...Pentagon said it never heard about the e-mails; thus began the finger-pointing. "Once they're assigned," a senior Pentagon official says of DCIS officers, "they work for the task force, not us." FBI Director Robert Mueller has ordered a review of the bureau's knowledge of Hasan to determine whether "any policies or practices should change based on what we learn." Among other challenges will be figuring out how to distinguish real threats from provocative behavior and how to train agents to be confident enough to make that judgment. At this moment, there are hundreds of thousands...