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...last eight years serve as proof that government can and does fail. But we support Barack Obama because we refuse to let the failures of the last president diminish our expectations for the next. Our generation will inherit the legacy of the administration that we choose on Tuesday, and if we hope to live as well as our parents did, we cannot settle for the Bush standard...

Author: By Eva Z. Lam, Elise X. Liu, and William Weingarten | Title: Restoring the Promise of Good Government | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Whichever candidate wins on Tuesday (although I have my fingers firmly crossed for one of them), I urge him to heed the wisdom of Kennedy and Roosevelt. Spending $500 billion on a missile defense system may no longer be advisable, but surely spending $5,000 on modern dance...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: The State of the Art | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Responsive Politics, which came up with the numbers after analyzing Federal Election Commission data for the 2008 election cycle released October 27. "Defense contractors know that contributions lead to access, and that access can lead to government contracts." And they're going to keep coming if Obama wins Tuesday. "I don't see defense spending declining in the first years of an Obama Administration," one of the Democrat's top defense advisers, Richard Danzig, said recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Beats McCain in Defense Contributions | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...This reform cedes great chunks of our territory to foreign companies," Lopez Obrador told Congress on Tuesday, just before the final vote on the law. "Mexico should go on being a free, independent and sovereign country. We do not want to become a colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Up Mexico's Oil to Foreigners: A First Step | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...deepwater reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, which may hold as much as 50 billion barrels. Nor will the trans-nationals be able to build and run refineries on Mexican soil as Calderon proposed in his bill filed in April. The thrust of the new law approved Tuesday is simply to allow government oil monopoly Pemex to subcontract foreign companies to explore and drill in specific parts of Mexico. Furthermore, crucial clauses allow Pemex to be able pay those companies by performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Up Mexico's Oil to Foreigners: A First Step | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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