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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 4 days 17 hours 18 minutes ago
There is no more generic architectural statement in the United States than the Greek temple. White columns and classical proportions are the aesthetic DNA of our banks, libraries and office buildings, as well as almost every important structure in Washington, from the Capitol to the...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 week 6 days 23 hours 18 minutes ago
THE D.C. Council's debate on Peter J. Nickles's confirmation as the city's attorney general revealed more about council members than about Mr. Nickles. The latter is, as we already knew and as even his fiercest critics had to concede, an eminently gifted attorney. But it's...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 weeks 7 hours 18 minutes ago
In Afghanistan, as elsewhere, America's allies and enemies are waiting for Obama. But the US president-elect has already shown he won't be hurried, steering clear of this weekend's G20 crisis summit in Washington – George Bush's last hurrah. Whatever he does, it's clear he will do...(more)
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written by Ari 73 weeks 1 day 11 hours 23 minutes ago
Pat Robertson is back, this time predicting that god has told him -- in words -- that millions of Americans will die in an attack in 2007. The problem is it looks like Pat is god's favorite victim of practical jokes -- god just keeps pulling...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 1 week 4 days 18 minutes ago
In her second year as the District's schools chancellor, Michelle A. Rhee looks like a sprinter. In less than two years, with the full support of Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, she has already cut central office administrators, fired principals, closed schools and challenged the teachers...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 5 days 18 minutes ago
I get the part about feeling disappointed and bitter. I can even understand their impulse to sit this one out. After all, this was supposed to be Hillary Clinton's time. What stumps me, however, is the possibility that some of her most ardent Democratic supporters,...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 3 days 1 hour 18 minutes ago
In a famous example of ideological flexibility, the American Communist Party changed its mind completely about Adolph Hitler in 1939, when he signed a deal with Joseph Stalin. Previously, they hadn't cared for him much. Suddenly, he looked pretty good. Two years later, when Hitler...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Breast cancer info 55 weeks 2 days 21 hours 54 minutes ago
I commend Devra Davis ["Off Target in the War on Cancer," Outlook, Nov. 4] for continuing to increase public awareness of cancer's causal factors. However, instead of divided efforts to achieve specific changes in reducing those factors, advocacy should focus on two key elements: increased federal......(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 weeks 1 day 5 hours 19 minutes ago
The Treasury Department’s profits — or losses — on its investments in banks under the bailout program depend on whether the banks return to health within a few years.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 8 weeks 3 days 21 hours 18 minutes ago
Michael Gerson ["Nominees in Need of Ideas," op-ed, Sept. 24] discussed President Bush's response to the financial crisis and said that he and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had "assumed the mantle of Franklin D. Roosevelt." Praising the president for merely attempting to clean...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 6 days 16 hours 18 minutes ago
Joe Lockhart was watching the instant feedback from focus groups during the final presidential debate four years ago, and the reaction showed that his candidate, John Kerry, was beating President Bush. But strategist Matthew Dowd, who was in the Bush holding room, recalls his team's...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 6 days 18 hours 18 minutes ago
As each day's news brings more dire warnings of doom and panic, the people in charge tell us how urgent it is that we all bail out huge, rich businesses that massively mucked up their work. Politicians, journalists and business executives alike hide behind thick...(more)
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