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PIERRE, S.D. – With the help of a prestigious $3.6 million federal grant, South Dakota State University, in partnership with six other South Dakota higher education institutions, has developed the South Dakota Jump Start program. This program intends to serve 900 Native American and low-income students, helping them succeed in college by providing an affordable academic "jump start."
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Is calling me [i]dog[/b]digitalia supposed to be some kind of jab? I don't care for dogs...
My apologies to Michaelangelo for snapping at him like this. All I can really say is, you caught me on a bad day, and I misdirected some frustration.
Posted 27 August 2005 - 03:24 AM
Who has attempted to fault the character of Richard Rahl? I certainly didn't. I do fault Goodkind's unskilled presentation of such a character. Ayn Rand grasped the nature of such a man down to the root; indeed, she grasped the nature of man in general better than anyone I've ever read. Because of this understanding, she was able to present her characters believeably. You hit the nail on the head. Richard isn't believable as the ideal man (even though none of his actions make him non-ideal). Howard Roark is so believable in his role that everyone I know who has read The Fountainhead fell in love with him.
I'm no writer, just an experienced reader. I don't know what Goodkind could have done differently to make his characters and stories live up to the ideas he is attempting to present. What I do know is that there is a tremendous difference between his literature and all of the "great" literature I've read. I know that there's a difference between Howard Roark and Richard Rahl, not in their characters, but in the way their creators presented them. One was a literary master, and as for the other... well, he just isn't.
Posted 27 August 2005 - 08:49 AM
Do I imply that Richard was unbelievable? No. I was commenting on how heroic his character is and how some people have commented on it.
You can say Ayn Rand grasped the nature of man better but you've yet to tie that in with how that makes her characters more believable then Goodkind's.
I guess this is one of those things where you 'feel' that the characters are believable and the others aren't so we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Posted 22 January 2006 - 03:22 AM
Richard folded his arms over his chest. "I have eyes, so I can't see. I have ears, so I can't hear. I have a mind, so I can't know anything."
...man is blind, because he has eyes deaf, because he has ears deluded, because he has a mind and the things he perceives do not exist, because he perceives them.
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Posted 19 April 2006 - 04:28 AM
That was an excellent post jedymastyr. I mostly agree with you. I definitely suggest that anyone on these forums that is interested in fantasy writing check out Goodkind. As to the plagiarism, although he doesnt directly cite Ms. Rand in his books (which would be silly in a fiction novel,) anyone that does any research on what the ideas represented are will see Goodkind giving all the credit to Ayn Rand.
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Posted 19 July 2006 - 11:50 AM
That was an excellent post jedymastyr. I mostly agree with you. I definitely suggest that anyone on these forums that is interested in fantasy writing check out Goodkind. As to the plagiarism, although he doesnt directly cite Ms. Rand in his books (which would be silly in a fiction novel,) anyone that does any research on what the ideas represented are will see Goodkind giving all the credit to Ayn Rand.
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Posted 03 November 2006 - 04:25 PM
Just curious: does that include the Harry Potter series?That said, this is the best fantasy I have ever encountered.
Posted 03 November 2006 - 05:41 PM
Just curious: does that include the Harry Potter series?
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Posted 09 December 2007 - 05:58 AM
Thanks for telling -- and welcome to THE FORUM.Anyway, I guess this turned out to be more than simply two cents lol. Thanks for listening!
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Posted 09 January 2008 - 10:15 PM
One of the problems with Goodkind is the sheer length of his series, and the fact that he uses Catalyst Heroes (sorry, reading Vogler's The Writer's Journey right now and that is the freshest term in in my mind). Meaning that his heroes do not change, but cause change in others. With this sort of hero, that is how you create the dramatic conflict.
Roark and Wynand is a perfect example. Galt and all the people that end up joining him is another. But once this is over, once the change of the lesser character is complete (in whichever direction), it is time to wrap up the story. The Fountainhead part 6 would be living death let alone the second page of part 2. You then merely have a character jumping hurdles that you know he will hurdle. Roark becomes The Terminator of the architectural field, an automaton that will not stop
Posted 11 January 2008 - 11:49 AM
Yes, this is a problem will all series. With Ayn Rand, using all her fiction books as an example, once an author has said all he can, what is the point of doing another story? It would merely be a repitition. After "We the Living", there was more that Ayn Rand wanted to say. After "Anthem", there was still more. After "The Fountainhead", there was still more. But after "Atlas Shrugged", she realized that she had said all that she could ever say in fictional form about her philosophy, and that to attempt more would have only resulted in a repetition.
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Each fall the Department of Classical Studies invites noted scholars to present a lecture containing at least one significant, original finding or thesis not previously presented in public, either in print or orally. This lecture is delivered on Saturday afternoon, to allow interested faculty, students and people from the area to attend. The topic is one of potential interest to teachers of classical studies at the college level. A concert follows.
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Friday, September 19, 2014, Althouse 106: "How Classical Was the Classical Revival? Pagan, Jewish and Christian Antiquities in Renaissance Europe."
Saturday, September 20, 2014, Rubendall Recital Hall: "The Study of Ancient History in Renaissance Europe: The Case of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614)."
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1975. He holds a BA, an MA, and a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and he studied with Arnaldo Momigliano at University College London. His interests center on the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from antiquity to the nineteenth century, and the history of science from antiquity to the Renaissance.
He is the author of ten books and the coauthor, editor, coeditor, or translator of nine others. He has written intellectual biographies of a fifteenth-century Italian humanist, architect, and town planner, Leon Battista Alberti (2000); a sixteenth-century Italian astrologer and medical doctor, Girolamo Cardano (1999); and a sixteenth-century French classicist and historian, Joseph Scaliger (1983, 1993). He has published on many topics in cultural and intellectual history, including the long-term history of scholarly practices, the subject of his Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (1990); The Footnote: A Curious History (1997); and The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe (2011). His book New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (1993) won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Selections of his essays have been published in three collections: Defenders of the Text (1991), Bring Out Your Dead (2001), and Worlds Made by Words (2009).
Professor Grafton has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), the Balzan Prize for History of Humanities (2002), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award (2003) and is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the British Academy. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leiden in 2006 and one from Oxford University in 2013. In 2011 he served as president of the American Historical Association.
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Loren J. Samons II is a Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University and an NEH Distinguished Teacher. He has written on both Greek and Roman History. He has edited The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles, (Cambridge, 2007) and authored What's Wrong With Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (California, 2004; paperback, 2007). Cambridge University Press will soon publish two biographies by Professor Samons, entitled, Pericles and the Conquest of History, and Kimon and the Creation of Classical Athens.
Brendan J. McConville is a Professor of History at Boston University. His research focuses on the intersection of politics and social developments in Early America. He is the author of These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace (Cornell, 1999, paperback University of Pennsylvania, 2003), The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (OIEAHC-UNC Press, 2006), and The American Revolution (forthcoming).
J. E. Lendon, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Virginia will be the respondent to Professor Samons' paper. Professor Lendon has written widely on Ancient wars warfare, including the following titles: Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War, 2010, and Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, 2005. In 2002, Professor Lendon received the All-University Outstanding Teacher Award at University of Virginia.
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Beginning with the example of fifth century Athens, Professor Samons and Professor McConville will discuss the dangers of a charismatic, idealistic leader in a democratic environment. Questions for discussion and debate will include how the American founders reacted to examples like Pericles and how they sought to avoid the same thing happening in the U.S. This will be held in the Stern Great Room at 4:30pm.
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Professor Samons will discuss controversial aspects of his new biography of the Athenian general and politician, Pericles, to be published by for Cambridge University Press. For instance, he will argue for a radical new understanding of Pericles' relationship to Homeric ideals.This lecture is part of a whole that will be the first hostile biography of Pericles ever written in English. The response will be given by Professor J.E. Lendon. This lecture will be held in Weiss 235 at 2pm.
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Walter Scheidel, Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
The Long Reach of Antiquity: Rome, China, and Modernity
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Emily Greenwood, Associate Professor, Yale University, Department of Classics
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Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC
October 1 & 2, 2010
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Mary Beard, Newnham College, Cambridge
October 2 & 3, 2009
"Seeing the Funny Side of It: What Made the Romans Laugh?"
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Jas Elsner, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
October 3 & 4, 2008
"Beyond Compare: Pagan Saint and Christian God in Late Antiquity"
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"You look at how he came early and stayed late, tried to improve, looked for ways to maximize his value," Jones said. "All of those things are a major consideration. His contract is a major consideration. You look at that. Do you compromise your football team? No. No...We've got a player that has the will and has the ability."
But what if Williams just—gulp—isn't that good?
I'm not sure he's going to drastically improve in 2010. For the most part he was healthy this season. He went through a full training camp last summer and has now been a Cowboy for a year and a half. The timing should be there. Along with the comfort level. And the production.
The Cowboys had the NFL's second-ranked offense in yardage but were only 14th in points. For the scoring to increase, Williams—with his big body and soft hands—needs to finally emerge as a consistent red-zone target. It's amazing what Dallas accomplished offensively considering the regression of Williams (as well as running back Marion Barber and tight end Martellus Bennett), but it would be unrealistic to think it could continue.
"I've got to find a way to make him better in the whole scheme," Phillips said of Williams. "We still had a prolific offense. It wasn't like it killed us not to have that production, but I think we can have more with him."
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Jeffrey J. Blevins
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Place of birth | Barberton, OH | |
Profession | Restaurant Manager | |
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Blevins has worked in a variety of professions: including research reporter, pet store manager, hotel night auditor, and representative of a currency trading firm. He is currently employed as a restaurant manager.
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Blevins' website highlighted the following campaign themes:[1]
- Federal Spending
- Excerpt: "We must reign in the out of control spending taking place in our nation's capital and force the federal government to live within our fiscal means."
- National Security
- Excerpt: "We need to realize that our national security is not threatened most by extremists or zealots, but instead by our fiscal practices."
- Second Amendment
- Excerpt: "Our founding fathers worked hard to create a government of checks and balances, and the Second Amendment is the peoples' part in this intricate system."
- Healthcare
- Excerpt: "There are numerous, constitutional ways to curb the cost of medical care in our nation. However, implementing an unconstitutional piece of legislation will not only fail to achieve the objective of affordable heathcare for all Americans, it will further erode our civil liberties that are duly recognized in the Constitution of the United States."
- Energy
- Excerpt: "We should not spend taxpayer monies on the subsidizing of alternative energy sources; the free market should dictate the need and price of such fuel sources."
- Immigration
- Excerpt: "Illegal immigration is just that, illegal, and should rightly be a punishable offense. As it is now, illegals are rewarded with social service benefits that further weaken the United States economy."
- Free Trade
- Excerpt: "Free trade is an extension of personal property rights; an individual has the right to trade any of their personal property to others in a mutually agreed upon exchange. However, global governments have politicized trade and tied it to humanitarian and monetary policies."
- Economy & Jobs
- Excerpt: "The driving force behind sustainable jobs is a strong economy, not the government. A government has the ability to hamper an economy and thus stifle employment opportunities, and our government generally does just that."
- Taxes
- Excerpt: "The United States Tax code is designed to do two things: generate revenue for the federal government, and give the federal government more control over our daily lives. Both of these are an overreach by the federal government of the United States."
- Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- Excerpt: "The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States recognize everyone's right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. These rights are inalienable and endowed upon us by our Creator, not our government."
Blevins ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Ohio's 16th District. He ran unopposed in the March 6, 2012 Libertarian primary and later withdrew in August.[2]
The Washington Post listed the House of Representatives elections in Ohio in 2012 as one of the 10 states that could have determined whether Democrats retook the House or Republicans held their majority in 2013.[3] Ohio tied with Pennsylvania for 9th on the list.[3]
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It Looks Unlikely The Improv ARM Mer-Running Board Will Ship
Published on 07 May 2014 11:15 AM EDT
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Back in the middle of April I wrote about
the Improv ARM development board not yet shipping
and many of the early pre-order customers being frustrated that the open-source-friendly hardware still isn't shipping months past its original ship date. Since then, there's still been no official update and it looks like one of their suppliers isn't even working with them anymore.
The Improv board aimed to be
an open-source ARM development board running Mer
that would work with both X.Org and Wayland environments. While the specs on the hardware are on the low-end (dual-core Cortex-A7 with 1GB of RAM), the board is advertised as being able to handle KDE's Plasma Active environment. Originally the Improv was supposed to ship in January and then it turned to be March and then there's still no reports of orders shipping while the web-site still advertises a March 2014 ship date. The apparent delays for the Improv board is over lack of orders with not even having enough pre-orders to justify a manufacturing run; the last we heard is that there were less than 300 orders of this $75 open-source ARM board.
Making matters worse since we last wrote a Phoronix post on the matter over the lack of pre-order customers being able to hear any official update, is that they are apparently no longer able to work with their supplier. One of the original selling points of the Improv was that it was going to be an open and modular design with the ARM Cortex-A7 being shipped on a swappable CPU card. The design was to be based on the EOMA specification; the
Embedded Open Modular Architecture
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pointed out
that it doesn't look like that will even work out.
There's a post on the
ARM-netbook mailing list
stating, "unfortunately the team behind Improv has not come up with the order. QiMod Ltd will not be supplying them with product because the relationship with the factory has been adversely affected. we have asked them to remove all mention of EOMA from their web site." So should the sales of the Improv magically ramp up, it's unlikely they will be able to place an order, at least via their original supplier (QiMod) over a strained relationship now with them and their manufacturer.
While perhaps not as open friendly or Mer focused, other alternatives to this slow (dual-core Cortex-A7 + 1GB RAM) ARM development board for $75 is a whole range of
AMD AM1 products
that wouldn't cost much more, the Intel NUCs are nice and run well with Linux on a fully open stack, or within the ARM space for those wanting something performant there is the promising
NVIDIA Jetson TK1
. Right now the Jetson TK1 needs to use the NVIDIA binary blob for 3D acceleration but there's been
Nouveau support emerging for the Tegra K1
. Other Jetson TK1 / Tegra K1 support code is queued up in linux-next for hopeful support with the Linux 3.16 kernel.
We're still waiting to hear any official update on the state of the Improv board and will post if hearing anything else...
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Chinese hackers picking western pockets
Three major U.S. newspapers — The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal — reported recently that Chinese intruders hacked into their computer networks, snooping for passwords and information about coverage of China. The intrusions at The Times and the Journal coincided with an extraordinary period in recent months, during which China's leaders and their extended families were shown by investigative newspaper reports in the papers to have amassed huge fortunes and one of China's most prominent politicians, Bo Xilai, fell from grace in a corruption scandal.
China denies carrying out cyber-espionage, theft and disruption. But there is a growing amount of evidence that it is behind one of history's great heists of intellectual property, a vast and multi-tentacled collection drive aimed at corporations, the U.S. government, universities, stock exchanges and think tanks, among others. The newspapers are only the latest example of companies that found footprints of the Chinese cyber-dragon in their corridors.
China's motivation in economic espionage is to steal technology that will help leapfrog generations of development; going after the military and newspapers is more like classic spying. The U.S. government spies on China, too, although U.S. intelligence agencies do not steal technology for the private sector.
All of this raises a question: How should the United States respond? In the absence of action by Congress, President Obama has just issued an executive order intended to help the private sector defend against cyberattacks by China and others. But discussions with China itself have gone nowhere. The time is ripe for something stronger. In an interview with reporters before leaving office, secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the United States must make it clear to Beijing that there will be consequences for unbridled hacking.
Cold War-style arms control treaties are probably not workable in cyberspace, where attacks unfold at lightning speed and at the hands of hard-to-find hackers. But the United States could begin to speak more firmly to China's leadership about the problem, perhaps threatening to deny visas or expel those found to be involved in economic espionage. If a little pressure does not succeed, the United States could ponder more aggressive options, such as whether to launch offensive cyber-assaults to preemptively disarm adversaries. That would be delicate and risky. As Ms. Clinton noted, this "can become a very unwelcome and even dangerous tit-for-tat that could be a crescendo of consequences, here and around the world, that no one wants to see happen."
China is no longer the poor and isolated nation of Mao's day. In cyberspace, it must behave like a global economic superpower and not like a petty pickpocket.
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Burris Ups The Ante
Roland Burris isn't making this any easier on the Democrats. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Roland Burris suggested he would challenge an effort to block his appointment to the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, but said he's confident that Senate Democrats will back down and allow him to take the job.
"We think they will come around and recognize that the appointment is legal and valid and I am the junior Senator from Illinois," he said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal at his office here.
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, facing federal corruption charges, named Mr. Burris, the 71-year-old former Illinois attorney general, as his choice for the seat on Tuesday. Senate Democrats immediately said they would refuse to seat him, citing allegations against Mr. Blagojevich, who was arrested Dec. 9.
"By what authority can (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) deny a governor carrying out his constitutional duty?" Mr. Burris said. "I am the senator. I am the junior senator from Illinois."
And Burris has a point. Absent any evidence of criminality with regard to the Burris appointment itself, what exactly is the argument to deny him a seat? After all, if there were concern about Blago's continued powers, the Illinois legislature could have stripped him of the appointment power. Egged on by Harry Reid, they chose against a special election.
Does it reflect poorly upon the Democrats? As David Broder succinctly put it: "The Illinois Democrats have really made a spectacle of themselves." But since when was that grounds for denying a senator his seat? I think we can predict that, regardless of the legal arguments, the Senate will vote to deny him his seat. Burris can then head to court. By then Burris may need to face off against some other appointee (from the Lt. Governor, after Blago is impeached). Or perhaps by then a special election will be set. In any event, a tangled and protracted legal battle seems to be in the offing. This will make the Franken-Coleman contest look like a picnic.
And the Republicans? This is one of those times when it is best not to interfere with an opponent's self-destruction.
The Broken Cycle
One of the recurring memes about the Middle East – more specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts – is "the cycle of violence." In this simplistic view, it's a never-ending game of hit and hit back, punch and counterpunch, tit for tat and back to tit again, over and over, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, ad aeternum.
If only it were that simple.
It's actually two different cycles, two different gears that mainly serve to trigger the next stage of the process in the other.
On the Israeli side, it's a constant cycling through processes:
Confrontation: engaging the Palestinians through direct military force. This is the current stage with Gaza.
Accomodation: Offering "good faith gestures" and compromises in hopes of inspiring similar responses.
Negotiation: Discussing far-ranging, complicated "peace proposals" that take months and months to hammer out, and fall apart before the first few stages are fulfilled.
Separation: Building walls or withdrawing completely and telling the Palestinians "to hell with you; wallow in your own fetid mess."
On the Palestinian side, it's a bit simpler: it's a cycle of violence. Sometimes it's higher as they work themselves into a frenzy; sometimes it's quieter as they howl about Israel's audacity in hitting back (and covertly re-arm themselves). A complete cessation of violence, however, is pretty much unheard of.
The one thing that has seemed to work for Israel, if at least in the short term, has been the kind of massive (but targeted) assault that Israel applied to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas now. (Of course, in the case of Hezbollah, it kind of fell apart when Israel deferred to the international community, which made all kinds of promises to rein in Hezbollah and then did nothing while it not only rearmed to levels above the 2006 war, but consolidated its hold on the Lebanese government, but it was a good start.)
So far, in Gaza, it seems to be working. Hamas (and its apologists worldwide) have sent the rhetoric levels to near-record highs, but the actual number of rocket and mortar attacks have not been anywhere near the threatened levels once Hamas declared an end to the "truce."
Here's hoping that this time it will actually achieve some lasting good.
Laboring Under A Cloud
The Los Angeles Times reminds us that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has had a mixed year at best:
The year might have ended on a purely triumphant note for Andy Stern, who heads the nation's fastest-growing labor union and played a key supporting role in President-elect Barack Obama's drive for the White House.
Instead, Stern has seen the Service Employees International Union jarred by a spending scandal and internecine feuding, and more recently by the favor-selling investigation that led to the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Stern has not been implicated in any wrongdoing, and many say he has moved forcefully to address the allegations of corruption in the union's biggest California chapter and internal complaints of financial impropriety at a second Los Angeles local.
The details of Blago-gate and other scandal are yet to fully emerge:
While federal prosecutors allege that Blagojevich sought a plum job through the SEIU in exchange for filling Obama's U.S. Senate seat with a labor ally, authorities have not accused union officials of participating in such a scheme. The union is cooperating with the investigation of Blagojevich.
But Stern's critics point out that a trio of SEIU officers who have faced varying degrees of scrutiny were his appointees. Some say that his administration ignored early reports of trouble with one or more of them, particularly Tyrone Freeman, the sacked president of the largest California local. Freeman is the target of a federal criminal probe that confidential sources say probably will stretch well into 2009.
An SEIU inquiry already has concluded that Freeman misappropriated more than $1 million in union funds for himself and his relatives, an allegation he has denied.
This presents a challenge for the incoming administration, which owes so much, politically and financially, to Big Labor. President-elect Obama has already delivered Big Labor a dutifully subservient Secretary of Labor nominee. But significant policy decisions await the new President on free trade, card check legislation, and the car bailout, to name just three. He might, in ordinary times, have no difficulty deferring to his Big Labor sponsors on many if not all of these items. But now, with Big Labor's unseemly behavior front and center, does the new President need to put some distance between himself and his union allies?
President Obama will face numerous balancing acts in his first year. Weighing the demands of the Democratic base against the demands of good policy and his own broader-based popularity is key to maintaining his political equilibrium. And none will be trickier than making sure that repayment of whatever debts he owes to Big Labor doesn't call attention to the unseemly co-dependence between the nation's most lavish special interest group and the Democratic Party. President Obama may need to, like no Democratic President before him, demonstrate the ability to say "no" to Big Labor. If not, the public may begin to question why the leader of the New Politics is doing the bidding of such questionable characters.
One (Probably) Resolved Question
One of the great uncertainties hanging over the Gaza war has been the question of whether Hamas' regional allies — Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran — would intervene in the conflict. Would Hezbollah commence its own rocket war to complement Hamas', and test whether Israel was prepared to wage a two-front war?
Several days into the war, the only intervention from these players has been theatrical, not military. Nasrallah rants from Lebanon and Ahmadinejad from Tehran, but there has been no action to back up the rodomontade. In a war whose resolution is still ambiguous, this is one development that is concrete. The lesson for Hamas is clear: Tehran and Hezbollah can give you cash, send you weapons, and celebrate your resistance, but they will not protect you from the IDF.
Flotsam and Jetsam
Thomas Frank sounds the liberal refrain that markets aren't so smart. Aside from ignoring the very real role that government institutions played in the financial mess, he ignores the obvious: government (that would be the place inhabited by Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and Alan Greenspan) is worse at producing wealth and employment than the collective judgment of markets. If you doubt that, wait until you see government-run car companies.
David Ignatius worries about a "bailout nation": "If Wall Street investment banks can get away with it, why not auto companies? And if auto companies, why not the guy who bought a house he couldn't afford, or who maxed out his credit cards without a hope of repaying the debt? What the heck? We're all living in bailout nation. As a prominent foreign investor observes: 'In America, loans have gone from 'something to be repaid' to 'something to be refinanced.'" But if he really believes we need to get back to taking our lumps, paying our bills, and living within our means, why favor the Obama stimulus plan?
Plan "B" for Harry Reid on the Illinois senate seat mess: stall. But that doesn't really solve the problem — Burris has his selection in hand, and that's his "ticket"–even if the issuer (Blago) expires.
Sen. Mitch McConnell seems rather delighted by the prospect of the Burris-Blago mess.
Tim Rutten doesn't think much of the "blame the liberal media" defense of Chip Saltsman: "Does Saltsman really believe that Gingrich, current RNC Chairman Mike Duncan and the heads of GOP state committees in places as different as Florida and North Dakota — all of whom have pronounced themselves appalled by his bad judgment — are dupes of the liberal media's double standards?" Saltsman would no doubt respond that it's all a grand conspiracy to use the public outrage over his conduct to defeat his candidacy. The fact that there is public outrage, or at the least contempt for Saltsman's cluelessness, even within conservative circles, doesn't quite factor into his explanation.
This reminds me that D.C. representation is one of those issues which the Republicans lost a chance (while they still held the White House and could count on a filibuster in the Senate) for a better deal than what they are likely to get in the era of Democratic control. Immigration reform is another.
The Daily News pleads with Governor Paterson to end this thing. (If you are a betting person, you might want to sell short on Caroline on Intrade.)
Helping to spin the Gray Lady's defense that it didn't explicitly accuse Vikki Iseman of having an affair with John McCain, this reporter neatly omits mention of the Times' own mea culpa. Public Editor Clark Hoyt had no problem acknowledging: "The newspaper found itself in the uncomfortable position of being the story as much as publishing the story, in large part because, although it raised one of the most toxic subjects in politics — sex — it offered readers no proof that McCain and Iseman had a romance. . . I think that ignores the scarlet elephant in the room. A newspaper cannot begin a story about the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee with the suggestion of an extramarital affair with an attractive lobbyist 31 years his junior and expect readers to focus on anything other than what most of them did. And if a newspaper is going to suggest an improper sexual affair, whether editors think that is the central point or not, it owes readers more proof than The Times was able to provide." If I were Iseman's attorney I'd put Hoyt at the top of the deposition list.
Lessons To Learn–Quickly
It might not have been intended as such, but the Washington Post's recent batch of op-eds provides a road map for the President-elect of several significant pitfalls that lie ahead.
From Amity Shlaes comes a warning to avoid excessive experimentation which roils markets and freezes economy activity:
In 1932, stunned market players and citizens wanted to know what the new rules were. They voted for a party with a platform so moderate it could have been written by today's Concord Coalition: stability, sound money, balanced budgets. That was the Democratic Party, led by Roosevelt.
Many of FDR's initial plans did bring stability: His first Treasury secretary worked to sort out banks with the outgoing Hoover administration in a fashion so fair that an observer noted that those present "had forgotten to be Republicans or Democrats." By creating deposit insurance, FDR reduced bank runs. His Securities Act of 1933 laid the ground for a transparent national stock market. Equities shot up.
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But other policies were more arbitrary. Using emergency powers, FDR yanked the country off the gold standard. Both American and international markets looked forward to a London conference at which a new monetary accord was to be struck among nations. Over the course of the conference, though, FDR changed orders to his emissaries multiple times. Some days he was the internationalist, sending wires about international currency coordination. Other days he was the cowboy, declaring that all that mattered was what the dollar bought in farm states. The conference foundered.
The arbitrary quality of other initiatives reinforced concerns. The New Deal centerpiece, the National Recovery Administration, helped some businesses compete and criminalized others for the same behavior. Sometimes Roosevelt goaded federal prosecutors into harassing corporate executives. Other times, he schmoozed the same execs at the White House. In 1936, FDR pushed through deficit spending. In 1937, he was Mr. Budget Hawk.Uncertain, markets froze. Businesses refused to hire or invest in equipment. Unemployment stayed stuck in the teens. The 'deal' part of the New Deal phrase was problematic; businesses didn't want individual favors, they wanted clear laws for all. Industrialist Ernest Weir summed up what his community was desperate for FDR to do: "Above all to make the program clear and then stick to it."
The message: be steady.
From Michael Gerson comes a warning to avoid the fawning of the media elite in addressing Iran's nuclear ambitions and fighting the war in Iraq:
Though he ran as a peace candidate, Obama will be a war president. In these likely challenges of 2009, he deserves more than an infatuation that turns to disillusionment. He will need a broad commitment to difficult national goals involving considerable risk and sacrifice — public patience and fortitude that were not always evident during the longest days of the Iraq conflict.
The message: don't chase the praise of fickle public opinion.
And Ruth Marcus makes the all-too obvious point that trying Bush administration officials for "war crimes" would be a disaster. The message: ignore the partisan mob.
Upon initial reflection, none of this might seem to come naturally to President Obama. After all, he won election by promising lots of change, appealing to the popular anti-war sentiment, and bonding with the netroot base in his party. So it might be a strain for him to do fewer rather than more things, ignore popular opinion, and eschew partisanship. But that's the difference between campaigning and governing.
And his selection of personnel, his apparent willingness to allow parts of his agenda slip to the back burner (e.g. tax hikes), and his moderate rhetoric during the transition have given reason to hope that none of this will be too much of a stretch.
But as he moves to the White House he will also lose the luxury of remoteness and inactivity. That may be the most difficult challenge of all. Keeping mum on the bailout of AIG, pondering endlessly the Russian invasion, remaining out of reach to comment on Blago-gate, and literally hiding from the press during the Gaza incursion seemed to fit his natural inclinations. He's never been one to enjoy mixing it up with the press and he has often evidenced a thin skin for criticism.
That approach may have worked in a campaign (with the help of the compliant media rooting for his opponent's defeat), but it's a recipe for a rocky presidency. He will, in addition to his many policy dilemmas and management tasks, need to learn and practice the skill of prompt and definitive decision-making. After all, in just a few weeks there won't be anywhere to hide or anyone to whom to defer.
Where's The Hook?
Karen Tumulty is the latest to observe the capsizing of the HMS Caroline:
For most people, the salient biographical fact about Caroline Kennedy–let alone the reason to seriously consider her candidacy for the Senate–is her last name. Being a Kennedy has not exactly proved to be an obstacle to success over the past century of American life. You would think that someone with the Kennedy political DNA would have a better understanding of her relative head start in life, but thus far, the only thing Caroline Kennedy has established is that she hasn't inherited the Kennedy charisma gene.
. . .Acquaintances say they find it hard to picture Kennedy putting up with constant badgering by the Manhattan tabs and TV outlets, or immersing herself in the intricacies of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact.
On policy questions, her answers have run from cautious to vague, except for her declared support for gay marriage. She does not appear to have given much thought to the specifics of what she would try to accomplish once in office–even on education, which presumably is her area of expertise, given the six years she spent as a volunteer raising money for the New York City public school system. In a contentious interview with the New York Times, she refused to engage in one of the hottest education debates of the day, declining to say whether she supported abolishing tenure for teachers and giving them merit pay instead.
(Tumulty, for reasons she does not make clear, still thinks Caroline will prevail.) Is it Caroline's presumptuousness or her vacuity that has shattered the Kennedy aura? Both, it seems.
While it is true this is a prime moment for celebrity politicians (goodness knows we just elected the Oprah-endorsed new age icon), Caroline seems to be missing the "hook" — the element that allows her to both connect with the ordinary voter and simultaneously to provide rationalization for Governor Paterson to select her from the pack of lesser known, but more able competitors. She has none of the self-created narrative of Barack Obama, the populist charm of Sarah Palin, the brainy wonkish-ness of Bobby Jindal or the hard-bitten political tenacity of Hillary Clinton. She is the ultimate derivative — a packaged, ancillary product of unknown worth.
Caroline has said she's not interested in running, simply in being selected. So David Paterson may escape by finding a diligent placeholder to block the ascension of the undeserving and unmotivated Caroline. It would not exactly be an act of political courage or a source of pride. But sometimes all we can do is muddle through.
Careful What You Believe
The Gaza story is about to take the standard turn, with the accusation that Israel is fostering a different kind of disaster by blockading food supplies to suffering Gazans. Indeed, the U.N. refugee bureau, whose management of the Gaza refugee camps has been one of the world's foremost scandals for the past three decades, is claiming it has no wheat grain its coffers. Only it's not true, according to another UN agency, the Jerusalem Post reports:
The UN's World Food Program contacted the IDF on Wednesday and said that it would not need to transfer more food into Gaza, since its stockpiles were full and would last for another two weeks.


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Pinterest is fun and highly addictive, I know first hand because I can easily spend an hour looking and licking my lips at all
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South Korea Rejects North's Nuclear Status Claim
South Korea on Thursday rejected North Korea's effort to declare itself a nuclear-armed nation through a constitutional amendment, the Yonhap News Agency reported (see GSN, May 30).
The updated constitution as of last month cites North Korea as a "nuclear-armed state," according to the text posted online on Wednesday. Such language had not been found in earlier changes to the document.
"At first, nuclear-weapon state status is in line with the terms of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), but North Korea itself has admitted that it is not a member of the NPT," according to South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae.
Pyongyang declared in 2003 that it would no longer be a member state to the treaty. It has since conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 and alternated between engagement and abandonment of six-nation talks on shuttering its atomic sector.
Cho said the North must "implement its commitments and give up all nuclear weapons programs" in accordance with the September 2005 deal reached by China, Japan, Russia, the United States and both Koreas. Pyongyang made only limited moves toward meeting its commitments under the aid-for-denuclearization agreement; it has been more than three years since the six-party talks were last held.
The regime's constitutional move is likely to further reduce any hope of restarting the negotiations, according to some issue experts.
There have also been signs that North Korea is preparing for its third nuclear test (Yonhap News Agency, May 31).
Pyongyang declared itself a nuclear power in the wake of its May 2009 underground nuclear blast, the Chosun Ilbo reported. That status is formally only acknowledged for NPT states China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper has cited the nation's nuclear power status in over 100 pieces published following the death of former leader Kim Jong Il in December. He was succeeded by his youngest son, Kim Jong Un.
"The revision was the first change to the constitution since the second nuclear test in 2009 and Kim Jong il's death late last year, and it must have been natural for the regime to use the expression 'nuclear power,'" one intelligence source told the South Korean newspaper.
The constitutional amendment is meant to promote North Korea's possession of atomic arms and their use as a means of leverage in negotiations, according to the official (Chosun Ilbo, May 31).
"This makes it clear that the North has little intention of giving up nuclear programs under any circumstances," Agence France-Presse quoted Cheon Sung-whun of the Korea Institute for National Unification as saying. "If there is a demand at the negotiation table to give up nuclear weapons, the North Koreans would say it would be a breach of the constitution," Cheon added.
The constitutional update "is certainly bad news for participants in the six-party talks," said Kim Keun-sik of Kyungnam University. "It will make it harder to persuade the North to give up nuclear weapons through diplomacy."
Still, "The North has been touting its nuclear status as one of the key achievements accredited to the late leader and the new constitution factors this in," Kim noted. "This can hardly be interpreted as a message that it will stick to its nuclear weapons no matter what" (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, May 31).
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Sienna Miller and her fiancé, Tom Sturridge, held hands for a walk in Manhattan yesterday afternoon. The couple was without their young daughter, though little Marlowe Sturridge was out and about in NYC over the weekend. Yesterday shaped up to be a busy one for Tom. Following his outing with Sienna, he linked up with Alec Baldwin and Ben Foster, his costars in the Broadway show Orphans, for a TimesTalk hosted by The New York Times. The entire week is a big one for Tom, Alec, and Ben — Thursday will be their show's official opening following a few weeks of preview performances.
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