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...just seems like they've reached a point where they are going too far," says Darrell West, the director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution. And the sluggishness comes at a time when the government needs to have all hands on deck as quickly as possible. At this point, West says, the Administration has named candidates for only 28% of the government positions that require Senate confirmation, which suggests it is moving more slowly than previous Administrations...
...West notes that the Treasury Department, which is the Administration's command center for dealing with the financial crisis, has made significant progress in recent weeks in putting candidates into the pipeline for confirmation. (A list provided by Treasury to TIME shows that people have been nominated or confirmed for all but four of the top 18 political posts.) But West says only one-third of the political appointees to top jobs are at their posts in the Commerce and Health and Human Services departments. And staffing is going slowly at the Pentagon, the Environmental Protection Agency and Homeland Security...
...power over its military and foreign policies. Netanyahu's track record, however, is more pragmatic than ideological. Despite his open loathing of Yasser Arafat, Netanyahu and his previous government signed a deal in 1998 with the late PLO leader for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the West Bank, including the sensitive biblical town of Hebron...
...hook and pitter-patter bongos of Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks.” Its innate cuteness won enough hearts to pass into mainstream consciousness and catapult the Swedish trio to relative renown. Its sheer ubiquity was perhaps best revealed when Kanye West remixed it on his mixtape “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” PB&J followed up the success of “Young Folks” with a couple pleasant but unmemorable diversions: an album of instrumentals called “Seaside Rock?...
Hipster, gangster, intellectual, pop star—Kanye West never can quite decide which one he likes best. Now, finally, he seems to have figured out; in a kind of epiphany, Kanye decides that he’s all of these things, plus a painter— all too literally, a Renaissance man. “Knock You Down” begins and ends with Keri Hilson’s seemingly lifeless body falling slowly through the air, but neither this bizarre sight nor later shenanigans by Ne-Yo is any match for the Kanye Show. His act opens with...