January 20, 2009
Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....
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Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....
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December 31, 2008
Third of three parts The contracts were flying out of AIG Financial Products. Hardly anyone outside Wall Street had ever heard of credit-default swaps, but by early 2005, investment banks were snapping them up to insure all kinds of deals in case of default, fueling one of the great financial boo......
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December 30, 2008
In what without a doubt is the most astounding op-ed piece of the year, Karl Rove reveals that his friend and former boss, George W. Bush, has read probably hundreds of books over the course of his presidency. One of them was Albert Camus' "The Stranger," with its unforgettable opening lines: "Mothe...
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December 10, 2008
Wow, has it really been two years since I began doing the shows for Yale? Since I suggested to Adrian Goldsworthy he call his next book, Cato: Stroppy Bastard of the Late Republic, or laughed loudly when Fred Shapiro mentioned that the editors cut his own quote out of The Yale Book of Quotations? It...
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December 07, 2008
Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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November 13, 2008
It's the time of year when high school seniors are applying to colleges. And that can mean only one thing: college visits, those trips eager students take with Mom and/or Dad to scope out universities. Here's a transcript of one college presentation I attended recently....
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It's the time of year when high school seniors are applying to colleges. And that can mean only one thing: college visits, those trips eager students take with Mom and/or Dad to scope out universities. Here's a transcript of one college presentation I attended recently....
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