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...other things that he's putting on the front burner, like health care or education, should be on the back. This is where, I think, the President's instincts are absolutely right, that the way we're going to create a great economy and a strong country and a vibrant democracy is by better educating all of our children. And this is a cliché, but if you think education is expensive, try ignorance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arne Duncan: The Apostle of Reform | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...This incentivizes firms to work against each other and was one reason why Lehman Brothers collapsed. As the Financial Times asserts, “a house insured for more than its value is always considered a fire risk.” Healthy competition among banks is essential to a vibrant economy, but incentivizing the failure of banks is not. Furthermore, the government should regulate who is eligible to buy a CDS. If a firm attempts to purchase a CDS without the intent to insure their own investment, strict scrutiny should be applied...

Author: By George Hayward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Regulating Credit Default Swaps | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...held in a lecture hall and probably won't endanger the university's funding because of its educational components, helped earn the screening's co-organizer, sophomore Malcolm Harris, an endorsement for student-body president in The Diamondback. Administrators at College Park called the rebel screening "characteristic of a vibrant educational community." Meanwhile, another University of Maryland campus, in Baltimore County, has scheduled a screening in solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirates XXX: One University's Battle over Porn | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...April 10, is often credited with renewing, if not recreating, the spirit of classical music today. Whether or not it's the world's best youth orchestra (many European music writers say it's still not up to the likes of Germany's Junge Deutsche Philharmonie), few are as vibrant, as it showed in its rousing Carnegie Hall debut in 2007. Abreu describes its core personality as "energy, passion, virtuosity," a "primordial, ardent Latin vitality combined with a high level of technical rigor." The orchestra almost always draws on its vast Latin American repertoire - in the U.S. this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela's Famed Youth Orchestra Visits U.S. | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...Angels in America” sweeps back into focus for its second night, more vibrant and complex than the evening before. The second half, fittingly called “Perestroika,” a Russian term for restructuring, initiates and affects a profound upheaval in the emotional and spiritual lives of its characters. As the vague connections between all six main characters begin to develop into close relationships, the masks slip from their faces, revealing what truly lies at their core. The most gentle characters, like Harper and Belize, turn out to have the greatest strength of mind and character...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Perestroika’ Confronts Prejudice and Overturns an Established Social Order | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

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