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Near as I can tell, these guys are all dressed up for battle with no one to fight. Who are these latter-day Hooverites? What prominent economist is out there opposing a stimulus? What politician has said he or she will pass up the opportunity to vote for spending a few hundred billion in a big hurry? Harvard professor Gregory Mankiw, who chaired George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, noted puckishly in the New York Times that he has children, whereas John Maynard Keynes--the intellectual godfather of the idea that government spending can jolt...
WHOM WOULD YOU CHOOSE? Vote for who you think should be the 2008 Person of the Year at time.com/poywalkup
...committee is scheduled to present its final recommendations to the Council in January for a vote...
...election in May, they will be hard pressed to find multilateral support for military intervention. The United Nations and most developed states will not support a repeat of Bush-like bellicosity, especially when it involves Saudi-financed Pakistan. In any case, China will most certainly block a Security Council vote to invade its closest partner in the region. And India is unlikely to go it alone with the risk of nuclear...
...closest Senate race in history - for an open New Hampshire seat in 1974 - was so tight that the candidates had to hold a second election. After Republican Louis Wyman beat Democrat John Durkin by just 355 votes, a recount gave Durkin the lead - but by only 10 votes, which meant another recount. This count gave the election back to Wyman - by two votes. Durkin asked the Senate - which had a convenient 60-vote Democratic majority - for a review of the results. Despite six weeks of debate, the Senate couldn't resolve the matter, and the two candidates agreed...