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...American liberals have long complained that ours is the only advanced industrial country without universal health care. Well, now we shall have it. And as we approach European levels of entitlements, we will need European levels of taxation...
...Yorker, has written an expansive work, as much an account of the forces that forged Obama's identity and intellect as it is a presidential biography. Though the level of detail can overwhelm at points, Remnick's fluid prose keeps the narrative on track. The book is well reported--featuring a host of anecdotes from intimates who ducked the media in 2008--and manages to set the President in historical context without losing sight of his humanity. Recounting a pivotal March 2007 speech in Selma, Remnick writes that Obama's words were "at once personal, tribal, national and universal...
...know the old Depression-era signs, 'I'll work for food?,' " asks Philadelphia workplace attorney Robin Bond. "Well, now they say, 'I'll work for free.'" Bond says she has heard from a growing number of unemployed professionals looking to volunteer for corporations because they don't want gaps in their...
...Motorola knows all too well, it will take a red-hot hit to capture those new customers. The 81-year-old American institution, based in Schaumburg, Ill., has a celebrated history: its engineers invented the cell phone and, before that, the walkie-talkie, as well as one of the world's first semiconductors. By the early 2000s, it had also produced the best-selling mobile phone of all time, the StarTAC, the world's first clamshell. It surpassed that feat with the ultra-sleek Razr, introduced in 2004. The Razr transformed the mobile market, and more than 100 million units...
...Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials. At Garfield High School, he found that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began to overhaul the school's math curriculum. His young charges did so well on the 1982 advanced-placement calculus exam that suspicious officials made a dozen of them retake the test. Each and every one passed...