It’s an official presidential Catch-22.Parents who are politicians face an eternal struggle — forging a proper path between possibly exploiting their children for votes versus completely shielding them from scrutiny.Barack and Michelle Obama have always stressed that they want their daughters, Malia and Sasha, to have a normal childhood. Well, as normal as two girls [...]
Two years ago, the Rand Corporation released a study saying that 20 percent of all military service members who returned from Iraq and Afghanistan — 300,000 in all — reported symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression. Many of those did not seek help because of the military culture or fear for their [...]
They were revered as the brightest minds in finance, the “quants” who could outwit Wall Street with their Ph.D.’s and superfast computers. But after blundering through the financial panic, losing big in 2008 and lagging badly in 2009, these so-called quantitative investment managers no longer look like geniuses, and some investors have fallen out of [...]
DEH-E-BAGH, Afghanistan — In this small corner of violence-wracked Kandahar, the counterinsurgency campaign devised and now commanded in Afghanistan by Gen. David Petraeus has produced a small island of promise, with the beginnings of good security, competent local government and active citizen participation. That’s the good news. But for the Obama White House, seeking to [...]
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