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...tell them to shape up or ship out, but making mistakes is part of how the brain optimally grows." It might be more useful to help them make up for what their brain still lacks by providing structure, organizing their time, guiding them through tough decisions (even when they resist) and applying those time-tested parental virtues: patience and love...
Cassandra has had a tough assignment during the past three decades. She keeps warning of catastrophe, yet things have kept getting better and better. But maybe this is her moment. Maybe this is when the economy stops being something you watch on television and starts being something you live with...
Ultimately Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner must convince the public that fixing the financial mess requires a dramatic expansion of government power--and in particular, the power of their respective offices. That may be a tough sell, in part because the disaster was as much a failure of the political system as of the financial one. Over the past decade, politicians, scooping up campaign contributions from Wall Street, took down the guardrails that had existed since the Depression. And few were better connected in the corridors of power--or more successful at deflecting proposals for tighter government supervision--than mortgage giants...
...victory against Yale on Feb. 22, in which he blocked 27 shots, Richter became the first Crimson goalie to score a goal.“Kyle was a really great player for us,” senior co-captain Brian McCafferty said. “It’s tough not to have him. But it’s happened in the past when goalies graduated or were injured. It doesn’t change our philosophy on defense. We’ve still got to play our game.”It won’t be easy...
...that only bullying could answer bullying: substance is great, the thought went, but bite is best. Since then, Dems have gone through two losing presidential campaigns and one Swift Boat political ad disaster, all of which seemed to hammer the point home: Democrats just weren’t being tough enough. The advice keeps cropping up this election cycle. This week’s New York Times op-ed page proves the point, featuring an encounter between fictional President Josiah Bartlet of “The West Wing” and Barack Obama. The take-away message from this fresh...