Новости за 13.12.2011

EUGENE - Oregon players got a few days to rest, refresh and finish up fall term finals.

SEATTLE (AP) — The Skittles came flying out of the stands, close enough that Marshawn Lynch was regretting not catching his favorite candy in midair and taking it back to the sideline.

Reports by the Honolulu Advertiser and KHON2 Sports in Honolulu over the weekend named Oregon State defensive coordinator Mark Banker as a candidate for the Hawaii head coaching job.

Gene Healy

For an increasingly uphill re-election battle in which he'll have to "go negative," I'd figured President Obama would imitate Harry Truman in '48, railing against a "do-nothing Congress." But it turns out he'll be running as Teddy Roosevelt instead.

Obama wrapped himself in T.R.'s mantle in a much-hyped speech last Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas. There, in 1910, ex-president Roosevelt proclaimed a "New Nationalism" that would involve "far more active governmental... Читать дальше...

Andrew J. Coulson

With lawmakers and the governor looking to cut $2 billion from the state budget, everything is on the chopping block — including public schools. In Washington state, Governor Gregoire wants to raise the sales tax to minimize or avoid those education cuts, so it's worth asking how much have we've raised spending in the past, and what good it's done. The answers are: "lots" and "not much."

In the 2000-01 school year, Washingtonians spent $7.9 billion on public schooling. Читать дальше...

Richard W. Rahn

It became increasingly clear last week how the debt crisis will end — and it is not going to be comfortable. The latest phony solution is for the large, "responsible" countries to demand more fiscal responsibility from the smaller and purportedly "less responsible" countries. In Europe, Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy are demanding that other European states give up some of their sovereignty and agree to strict limits on their deficit spending. President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy F.

Johan Norberg

They knew exactly what they wanted when they came to Brussels.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted to prevent the next crisis with the help of strict budgetary rules. French president Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to enable the next crisis by ensuring senseless lending.

On the current crisis that is tearing Europe apart, however, neither had anything to say.

Once again, EU leaders have come up with nothing more than a magnificent damp squib — for the second time in six weeks. Читать дальше...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern today about mounting political tensions in Papua New Guinea, where two prominent politicians each say they are the Pacific country’s rightful leader.

The world is forecast to grow hotter, sea levels to rise, intense weather to wreak even more destruction and the new deal struck by governments in Durban to cut greenhouse gas emissions will do little to lessen that damage. Climate data from U.N. agencies indicates that the accumulation of heat-trapping gases will rise to such levels over the next eight years - before the newly agreed regime of cuts in emissions is supposed to be in place - that the planet is on a collision course with permanent environmental change.

James Waterson reports on the day’s tennis news for Tennis Now. Australian tennis legend John Newcombe thinks that Roger Federer can return to World No. 1, Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova react to Margaret Court’s anti-gay statements and Novak Djokovic broke the ATP prize money record. Meanwhile, New Zealand was banned from the 2012 edition of the Fed Cup.