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Fed Needs To 'Start Giving A Red Hot Damn About The American Public,' Says Sen. WhitehouseTwo days before Ben Bernanke's confirmation hearing, most Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are withholding judgment, waiting to hear directly from the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Given the depth of the ongoing economic crisis, the hearing promises to be a lively one, as senators ...
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Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year | Threat Level | Wired.comSprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October. The manager also revealed ...
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In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap - NYTimes.comIn Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago on his résumé. But after graduating ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - A Tragic Mistake - NYTimes.comA Tragic Mistake “I hate war,” said Dwight Eisenhower, “as only a soldier who has lived it can, as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” He also said, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those ...
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The face of rotted Washington"When the sad and destructive history of the U.S. over the last decade is written, the coddled, nepotistic, self-serving face of Evan Bayh should be prominently included. It embodies virtually every cause."
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How dare you criticize wasteful defense spending! - Salon.comSo you think it's only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy? Think again
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The impact of lifelong learning on poverty reductionThis review summarises research-based evidence concerning the impacts of lifelong learning on poverty reduction. It is a contribution to an empirically based. understanding of the complex mechanisms through which education impacts on poverty reduction. We start by providing a definition of ...
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Niall Ferguson: An Empire at RiskAn Empire at Risk We won the cold war and weathered 9/11. But now economic weakness is endangering our global power. Call it the fractal geometry of fiscal crisis. If you fly across the Atlantic on a clear day, you can look down and see the same phenomenon but on four entirely different ...
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Paul Krugman: Empire Not At RiskWith the headline “How Great Powers Fail” on this week’s cover of Newsweek, Harvard economist Niall Ferguson writes in an article titled “An Empire at Risk” that the massive growth in federal debt could lead to a, “major weakening of American power.” In the piece Ferguson challenges Nobel ...
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