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...fact that my friends and I recreated the Cold War says something about how much we have internalized and moved on from this history. What was once a vivid and real ideological division is now a trifling conceit for board games. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, two years before most of us were born, and we take for granted that it happened and that the free marketers won. Communism has been reduced to a losing strategy, from the day we can say “free parking” or “go to jail...
...only happening on the battlefield. Last month, Army Secretary John McHugh ordered an "accountability review" to determine if Army officers flubbed their supervision of alleged Fort Hood killer Major Nidal Hasan by ignoring warning signs of his growing Islamic radicalization. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Army plans to discipline at least six officers for their negligence in the case in coming days...
...Wall Street is lobbying furiously to try to block the CFPA, and Republican congressional leaders have denounced the idea as big-government overreach that would harm consumers by stifling innovation - especially if bank basher (and TARP watchdog) Elizabeth Warren, the intellectual godmother of the agency, gets to run it. Some finance-friendly Democrats have been resistant as well. The new agency was included in the financial reforms the House of Representatives passed along party lines in December, but it has been a stumbling block as the Senate has struggled to put together a bipartisan bill, and even the House version...
...help but wonder: Where is the love? Would the world truly be better off if Harvard were to stop teaching economics? Humanities departments would burgeon, post-Ec 10 lunch lines in Annenberg would dissipate, and former ec concentrators—no longer wishing to strut down Wall Street—wouldn’t be disappointed when said jobs eluded them. Such a world would have to be governed by a powerful force. Some call this force cynicism. Some call it communism...
...seized and their visas tangled in bureaucratic red tape for months, crippling aid projects and counterinsurgency efforts. Sometimes photos of their residences are published in newspapers and labeled as CIA dens. American journalists, too, are singled out. Last October, an English-language Lahore newspaper, The Nation, accused a Wall Street Journal correspondent of working simultaneously for the CIA, the Israeli spy agency Mossad and, to top it off, Blackwater. A Pakistani daily also ran a photo of two British and Australian journalists at the site of a suicide bombing and insinuated that they were foreign spies...