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...this point, the new Congress and administration seem likely to use $825 billion in aid and $350 billion in TARP money to bring down the tax burden, salvage troubled mortgages, and create a great series of public works projects. These programs are supposed to create over three million jobs as they build energy, education, IT, medical, and broadband infrastructure. Getting the capital for these into the system means running them through government agencies and into the private sector. Many of the projects will operate in regulated parts of the economy like the health care system, so they will be subject...
...allow for production of smaller, smarter automobiles, says Giuseppe Berta, a Milan-based car-industry expert. "At this point, Chrysler can say it tried to get out of a corner, that it found a European company that makes more marketable cars," says Berta. "But if you want to actually use Chrysler facilities to construct a Cinquecento or Alfa MiTo, you're talking about a major cost." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...time in front of “Christina’s World,” which the Museum of Modern Art has held since 1949. Christina was a real acquaintance of Wyeth’s, and following a childhood illness was paralyzed from the waist down. She refused to use a wheelchair, and instead grabbed and crawled her way through the physical and metaphoric world. In the painting we can see only her back, laid out on the yellow grasses, tending all the force of her mind and body toward the gray, dilapidated farmhouse at the top of the long...
...exclusionary rule, which bans the use of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials, has been strongly asserted by the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly a century in order to make sure that police officers don’t disregard individuals’ rights while conducting an investigation. But recently, in an unprecedented ruling, the Supreme Court decided in Herring v. United States that evidence obtained through police “negligence” is permissible in court. This creates a loophole in the exclusionary rule that is not acceptable. The rules governing an investigation have to be well defined...
...employed to preserve the safety of transit riders. In the majority of cases, a gun might not be needed to fulfill this objective, as shown by this recent incident, guns may counter that purpose. Departments could, alternatively, become more stringent about the police’s freedom to use lethal force. Drawing a gun should be a very last resort—a tactic used when an officer’s life is at stake and shooting would be the only sufficient defense...