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European markets also seemed to anticipate a deal to bail out America's ravaged financial sector. But there was widespread irritation in Europe at American voters and their Congressional representatives airing largely ideological objections to the world's last chance to avoid unthinkable calamity...
...Clinton. This new legislation will grow AmeriCorps by 175,000 corps members, strengthen and grow the Peace Corps, and create new problem solving corps in education, disaster relief, environmental protection, and other areas. Despite the negative attacks of this presidential season, it is a powerful testament to the widespread appeal of service that these two presidential rivals are co-sponsoring this ground-breaking legislation. ETHAN L. GRAY ‘05-06 MARK A. ISAACSON ‘11 KENT PARK Cambridge, Mass. September 24, 2008 Ethan L. Gray is the director of education policy at Be the Change...
...still “feels realistic.”“We are accustomed to cycles,” Rogers said when asked about the impact of the financial crisis on Harvard fundraising. “But this is actually unprecedented, we have not seen something quite so widespread and uncertain, so the answer is I actually do not know.”She added that Harvard could be more affected because it “has been very well represented in the financial services industry,” though she said she did not know the percentage...
...political situation continued to deteriorate, Democrats began blaming the House Republicans for delaying action and risking a widespread financial collapse. House Republicans were set to caucus at noon, and there were reports that minority whip Roy Blount would be joining the high-level negotiations with Senate leaders from both parties...
...Hillary Clinton reminded America this year, is a signature of Clintonian politics. But the problem is, that’s all it is: character assassination. Despite its best efforts, it doesn’t emphasize the horrors of the past eight years, from torture to rampant war to widespread mismanagement and the gutting of civil liberties. Instead, it caricatures the people who put those policies in place and neglects the arguments—some of them convincing—that made those policies possible.This is the reality Clintonian politics never understood: many on the other side of the political divide...