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...We’ve learned the importance of cooperation the hard way by having some protacted periods of antagonism,” Jaeger said...
Professors from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences teamed up with Spanish chefs Jose Andrés and Ferran Adriá to design a curriculum that explores physical and chemical principles in a unique way...
...never quite delivered on it, he had done something huge. The comparisons with Jimmy Carter would abruptly come to an end. He was now a President who didn't back down, who could herd cats, who was not merely intellectual and idealistic but tough enough to force his way. This is bound to change the landscape of American politics. It makes significant progress on other issues - financial reform, immigration, perhaps even the reduced use of carbon fuels - more plausible. It may give Obama new stature overseas, in a world that was beginning to wonder about his ability to use power...
...know this is a tough vote," Obama told the House Democrats, and, for many of them, it was - politically. But in another way, it wasn't: it was ground zero of what being a Democrat has meant for the past 80 years. It rectified an astonishing injustice in American life: most of the nonworking poor are guaranteed health care, through Medicaid, but the working poor are not, unless they're lucky enough to have an employer who provides it. Another injustice: insurance companies determine who receives coverage and can deny it at will. For Democrats, this represented a gaping hole...
...Republican stonewall had its roots in a memo that William Kristol wrote in 1993, urging Republicans not to cooperate in any way with Bill Clinton on health care because, among other things, the plan represented "a serious political threat to the Republican Party." In other words, it would make Clinton and the Democrats more popular. Kristol's strategy succeeded in 1994, when Republicans won control of the House and Senate - but it failed in 2010, although Republicans, misled by momentary anti-reform polls that mostly reflect public confusion, seem intent on pushing "repeal." It remains likely that Democrats will lose...