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...penetrate that bubble.” Poliak said he was so inspired by these soldiers that he took to doing 60 push-ups a day after seeing them do their daily 300.Because Israeli citizens are required to join the army for a minimum of two years when they turn 18, the soldiers who participated on the Harvard Hillel trips were approximately the same age as the students. Anna M. Kamerow ’11, another participant of last year’s trip, said that, of the relationships with the soldiers, “people got very close...
...enough to make low-income shelter a national priority again in the long run? To critics, the Florida legislature's decision reflects not just fiscal necessity but a cultural bias against affordable housing that has grown since the Reagan era and got outright absurd in recent years. At the turn of the century, Florida was averaging about 10,000 new affordable-housing units per year; today it's about half that. Some Florida towns have even enacted minimum square-footage requirements for single-family homes and have all but zoned out affordable rental units. Last year a Miami developer...
...entire country. A lack of affordable homes helped spawn the economic crisis in the first place. The past two Presidents made growing homeownership rates a core goal, but to achieve that, they allowed overly loose lending standards. That caused a spike in demand for houses, which in turn raised home prices so steeply that the modest-income people whom Washington hoped to add to the homeowner rolls couldn't afford them - or eventually couldn't afford the monthly payments they had taken on. Meanwhile, affordable home construction became pass. What developer wanted to build humdrum houses for teachers and police...
...Only the Pentagon could turn a $60 million helicopter - the European-made EH-101 - into a $480 million whirlybird. The Pentagon's Defense Science Board, in a report released earlier this month, didn't mince words in assigning blame for the fiasco. "The schedule was acknowledged at the start to be high-risk and very aggressive," it said, "driven by post-9/11 global war on terror urgency." The costs started climbing as the White House informed the Pentagon and its contractors of its wish list of encrypted video, telephone and electronic capabilities that it wanted aboard the new birds...
...said the recently passed stimulus bill contained no earmarks, some erupted in bouts of derisive laughter. When Obama warned of those who make the "same old claims" that rolling back tax breaks for the wealthy is a "massive tax increase on the American people," one Congressman shouted out of turn, "You're right!" A large group of Republicans broke into disruptive cheering when Obama vowed to not pass on to the nation's children a "debt they cannot...