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even deeper recession, one that is being compared to the Great Depression. In a pattern that has become distressingly familiar, ...
Chast. It offered this among three “Thanksgiving Recipes from the U.S. Treasury Department”: Six sweet potatoes One can crushed ...
intertwined that what happens in Iowa can hit Shanghai like a tsunami. With the economic dominoes stretched around the globe, gr ...
O’Hagan wrote that “many a Londoner [is] seething at the subprime-mortgage disaster in America.” To convey the qual- ity of Brit ...
Every decade or so I find myself writing that we need leaders now as never before. That seems especially true as I write this, o ...
mechanics of these failures. That lack of transparency consti- tutes a serious problem in itself. Without knowing how things fai ...
That modest brief prompted Ben Franklin to label the vice president “his superfluous excellency.” But John Adams, who actually s ...
doubt, classify.” As a result of this profound philosophical dif- ference, 20.6 million documents were classified under Bush in ...
confine important information to the executive suite. They treat it as an executive perk, like the company jet. But whenever pos ...
once trusted and admired. McClellan became an eleventh- hour convert to candor, with all the convert’s zealous commit- ment to h ...
was the corrosive drip, drip, drip of privatization unchecked by effective oversight. It caused the outsourcing of much of the w ...
In many ways, the campaign was a microcosm of the most important cultural changes of the past decade. One major development has ...
presidential race with a nerve-wracking awareness that the stakes have rarely been higher. With no sitting president or vice pre ...
Swahili and Arabic names, unprecedented for someone seeking the country’s highest office. “I got my middle name [Hussein],” he e ...
moderates McCain was thought to favor. Instead McCain chose forty-four-year-old Sarah Palin, the young governor of Alaska little ...
per se is no substitute for good judgment in determining the quality of a leader. To an unusual degree, the lives of the four co ...
Gravely injured, his two young sons were not expected to sur- vive. The boys recovered; Biden was sworn in at their bedside. A p ...
The election season underscored the fact that ours is a cul- ture in which entertainment and news have been transmogrified into ...
must be good enough performers to persuade the audience that they share the same dreams and interests. Such leaders have the abi ...
It is no secret that ours is a celebrity culture, and that rou- tinely means that issues get short shrift in our public discours ...
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