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...Parsons, a moderate Republican who campaigned for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1989 (and worked alongside him at his law firm), has served every Republican president since Richard M. Nixon in some way: under George W. Bush, he was a member of the presidential task force that studied the possibility of making major changes to Social Security. In 2008 he joined the Obama transition team's Economic Advisory Board before being named Citigroup chairman...
...react to challenges beyond Iraq: "The 'decider' became the ditherer." As a result, Barack Obama faces an Iran "that is getting the Bomb," a war in Afghanistan that will keep U.S. troops tied down "for decades to come" and a nuclear-armed Pakistan "more unstable than ever." Obama's task is "to get the world growing again and to get the most imminent threats dealt with fast." Over to you, Mr. President...
Waller's death helped prompt an athletic-safety task force in North Carolina to recommend that all public high schools in the state be required to employ a full-time certified athletic trainer by August 2011. Meanwhile, after a high school student in New Jersey died of a brain injury suffered while playing football in October, New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell introduced legislation in late 2008 that would set aside federal funding for computerized preseason baseline and postinjury neurocognitive testing for student athletes. This is a tough time to be asking for money, he says, but "when you compare this...
This was the final report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, a group commissioned by MySpace and about 50 state attorney generals in February of last year, and which included 29 Internet companies, non-profit organizations and academics...
...every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task...