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Asserting that the U.S. had high tariff levels up through the 1950s, Chomsky attacked today??s global economic system for having served to transfer wealth from developing nations to the developed world...
...Rubin, who served as co-chairman of Goldman Sachs before joining President Bill Clinton’s cabinet, praised current Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin S. Bernanke ’75 in today??s speech. Rubin echoed Bernanke, who has spoken about the U.S. economy’s slowdown...
...film is its eclectic and star-studded cast. While all celebrities in their own rights, the actors adopt a pseudo-satirical style and give exaggerated performances, making no effort whatsoever to transcend their type-casting. This two-dimensional approach, however, helps Kelly create not only a send-up of today??s modern political scene but also an absurdist parody of the entire surrealist genre.In “Southland Tales,” the Marxist underground movement is controlled by SNL-type aging hippie-feminists who wear loose-fitting clothes, carry Tazers, and do lots of drugs. The entire...
Americans think their leaders are failing in almost every arena, according to a new Harvard study. The third annual National Leadership Index, released this week, also revealed that 77 percent of Americans believe there is a “crisis” in leadership today??up from 65 percent in 2005. The survey of more than 1,000 Americans, conducted jointly by the Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership and U.S. News & World Report, suggests Americans were especially critical of the media, the executive branch, and Congress. Of the 12 sectors respondents rated...
...success have come to supplant spirituality and morality. Maybe the New Testement wasn’t so terrible after all. Some interpretations of the Bible have been a source of agony for some groups, like for Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, or for gay people seeking equal rights in today??s America. However, by overcoming my fear of conservative, Bible-loving Christians, I came to understand them a little better, for I found there just might be some parts of the New Testament worth reading and even enfolding into one’s daily life. And with...