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The New Yorker excerpts former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's insider memoir, Locked in the Cabinet . Reich recalls the minimum-wage fight, bemoans the influence of Wall Street on the federal budget, and fantasizes a conversation with Alan Greenspan that ends with the Fed chairman calling him a "Bolshevik dwarf."
Manhole covers welded closed; trash cans removed; mailboxes locked; 8,000 cops; five police helicopters--it was like Christmas in Tel Aviv, except for the part about any known threat.
China policy is mired in incoherence, and the Indian subcontinent is locked in a nuclear arms race.
My husband says that one of the side-effects of this lower crime rate is that police are arresting fewer people because so many criminals are already locked up.
After the assembly passed orders to prevent the Congress from making new laws, the Congress attempted yesterday to enter the locked Capitol building in defiance of the order.