Colleges Have to Cut Back to Survive, but Angered Donors, Students and Profs Are Protesting

April 23, 2009

It’s the inevitable consequence of lean times following flush: “Financially strapped colleges are angering their benefactors by selling school radio stations, auctioning Georgia O’Keeffe paintings and dipping into endowments for purposes their donors may not have intended.” In the struggle for funding, some don’t understand it’s sometimes better to keep a professor than a painting.

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Another Casualty of a Down Market: Silly Ideas Brought to You by Lenny Dykstra

April 23, 2009

Ex-ballplayer Lenny Dykstra’s multimillion dollar ventures just require self-obsessed athletes want to read about and pamper themselves again and again, that jet fuel is cheap or free, and that losses on the market can just be pushed off to the future ad infinitum. Mike Fish profiles the heavily litigated Dykstra and his colorful fall.

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Liberal Ivy Leaguer Embeds at Conservative Liberty University: Dangerous Lies, Courageous Even

April 23, 2009

Kid cares enough about writing “Ivy Leaguer secretly embeds at Liberty University” book to shoot down a budding romance and lie to everyone he knows for a year. Buried twist: Liberty — which isn’t exactly the Forbidden City — seems to have changed him more than he changed Falwell’s legacy. Some reexamination is recommended, fella.

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McCormack: The Costs of Cap and Trade Have Been Drastically Underreported

April 22, 2009

It’s just another inconvenient truth: If Americans want any of the government remedies that would supposedly save a planet allegedly imperiled by global warming, it’s going to cost them.

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Acting Freddie MAC CFO Dead in Apparent Suicide

April 22, 2009

VIENNA, Va. — David Kellermann, acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac, committed suicide in his Hunter Mill Estates home Wednesday morning. Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Mary Anne Jennings tells WTOP Kellermann, 41, police responded to the home after family members called police around 5 a.m.

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Barone: Obama Lets Congress and Lobbyists do the Policy Work

April 22, 2009

The balance between the executive and legislative branches in writing laws has changed over the centuries. In the 19th century, Sen. Stephen Douglas wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act, with President Franklin Pierce just an interested bystander. In the 20th century, President Lyndon Johnson reportedly insisted that Congress change not one word of the Great Society legislation […]

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Police Fail to Charge UK Terror Suspects

April 22, 2009

LONDON — British authorities will seek to deport 11 of the 12 men arrested in a recent counterterrorism raid after failing to find enough evidence to charge them, police said Wednesday.

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Kaplan: Do the Palestinians Really Want a State?

April 22, 2009

The statelessness of Palestinian Arabs has been a principal feature of world politics for more than half a century. It is the signature issue of our time.

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Major Disagreements in Obama Administration Over Prosecution of Those Involved in Torture Memos

April 22, 2009

POTUS opens door for prosecutions, his National Intelligence Director’s opinion edited out: “I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.”

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The Dawning of the Fourth American Republic

April 22, 2009

James DeLong tracks the end of the Third Republic, arguing that the Special Interest State is dying quickly: “Given these trajectories, and the lack of any mechanisms for altering them, it is hard to see how the polity of the Third Republic can continue…The question is whether the landing will be hard or soft.”

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