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...major reasons that divided government can also be productive government, Mayhew notes, is that Congress doesn't just pass things in a vacuum. After 9/11, both parties felt a need to take steps to protect the country, leading to passage of the Patriot Act, creation of the Homeland Security Department and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also Presidents tend to overreach more when one party controls both the executive and legislative branches of government. Think of President Clinton's failed campaign to create universal health care in 1993 and President Bush's brief flirtation with radically restructuring Social Security...
...politicians monopolize the debate and exploit it for their own ends. They are incredibly well-organized and ruthless, and the business community has to toe the line." Three years ago, before the referendums, there was room for optimism. The green line was opened to traffic, but in the political vacuum that has existed since 2004, the main beneficiaries of free movement seem to be criminals. "The bicommunal activity to have benefited most from the 2003 opening of the green line," says one U.N. official, "is crime." Dozens of suspects wanted on charges of fraud, rape, attempted murder and other serious...
...While no Opal Mehta, the 2006 General Education (Gen Ed) proposal seems to unintentionally draw from the ideas of American educational writings in its attempt to reconnect a college education with a post-college life. The report suggests that it is time to take learning out of a vacuum, an idea that’s almost 100 years in the (re-)making.LEARNING BY DOINGWhile the new proposal explicitly references the influence of interim University President Derek C. Bok’s “Our Underachieving Colleges” and 2006’s “Excellence Without...
...very short span in the view of historians, but, to many of your readers, a 60th anniversary is a good reason to throw a big party. Time, please take a bow for excellent news reporting. Kester Ekekwe Jos, Nigeria I was pleased to read "Adoring a vacuum," about the Gastrovac, a new tool that vacuum-cooks foods at extremely low temperatures. I have tried to put at ease friends who are wary of the kitchen by stating that cooking is just an experiment in chemistry and physics in which the end result is something to eat. I am impatiently waiting...
Dyson vacs generally cost three times as much as the next best thing, and the Root 6, at $150, is no exception. The prices haven't stopped Dyson from becoming a dominant force in Europe's and Japan's vacuum markets. But the price-conscious U.S., where Dyson upright vacs have been selling since 2002, is tougher. Big brands, feeling threatened, are quick to advertise their own Dyson-like benefits at lower costs. Black & Decker already has a Root 6 competitor, the 18 Volt Pivot Vac. There's no lithium-ion battery, but for $60 it picks up dirt using...