http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/ Facts & Arts en Copyright 2010 Facts & Arts Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:04:00 +0200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/memo-to-david-axelrod-take-a-nap/ 2010-03-09T07:04:00+02:00 David Axelrod, President Obama's chief political adviser, sleeps "five fitful hours a night," the New York Times reported yesterday. "I think he's getting close to a burnout kind of thing," Axelrod's friend Sam Smith was quoted as saying. Charles Czeisler, a Harvard sleep researcher, has found that getting four or fewer hours of sleep five... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/memo-to-david-axelrod-take-a-nap/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/memo-to-republicans-want-to-vote-against-health-care-reform-go-ahead-make-my-day/ 2010-03-08T17:46:00+02:00 Over the last several weeks various pundits - and Republican talkers - have fanned out across the airwaves to proclaim that Democrats face grave political danger this fall if they are so bold as to pass health care reform in the face of united Republican opposition. For Congressional Democrats, the source of this advice should be enough to... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/memo-to-republicans-want-to-vote-against-health-care-reform-go-ahead-make-my-day/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-last-labour-adventurer-remembering-michael-foot/ 2010-03-06T18:12:00+02:00 He was called a walking obituary of the British Labour Party more prone to writing suicide notes (in the political sense), than manifestoes for survival. In a sense, Chris Patten had been right when he used that somewhat cruel description of Michael Foot, who was its leader between 1980 and 1983. His passing has brought the last vestige of... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-last-labour-adventurer-remembering-michael-foot/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-real-threat-to-israels-national-security/ 2010-03-05T11:06:00+02:00 It is time for the Israeli government to be realistic with the changing political conditions in the Middle East. The national security paranoia that has defined its policy toward the Arab world is dated, and no longer helps Israel in dealing with its regional threats: in fact, this paranoia is serving only to obstruct what is left of a lagging... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-real-threat-to-israels-national-security/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-coming-battle-of-the-ritz-carlton/ 2010-03-04T16:41:00+02:00 President Obama's announcement yesterday began the final chapter in the 14-month war over health care reform. The decisive battle will obviously take place on the floor of Congress. But the most symbolically powerful battle may take place next week some miles from the Capitol, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on the edge of Washington's tony... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-coming-battle-of-the-ritz-carlton/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/empathic-civilization-when-money-no-longer-buys-happiness/ 2010-03-03T18:53:00+02:00 Competition is lonely. It is good to have it between organisations. Within organisations, though, it may or may not increase productivity, but it does not increase happiness. To extol it is to make a fundamental misjudgment about human nature. For we are born with a strongly social side to our nature (a homo empathicus), as well as a... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/empathic-civilization-when-money-no-longer-buys-happiness/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/for-america-to-succeed-in-the-21st-century-senate-rules-must-change/ 2010-03-01T21:21:00+02:00 As momentum grows to change the rules of the United States Senate, it's important to look beyond partisan battles and evaluate the effect of the way we make major decisions on the prospects for American success in the 21st Century. In his book Collapse, Pulitzer prize-winning physiologist and ethno-geographer Jared Diamond studies the collapse... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/for-america-to-succeed-in-the-21st-century-senate-rules-must-change/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/abuse-of-language-threatens-american-freedoms/ 2010-03-01T21:09:00+02:00 The last Administration displayed a rather perverse and dangerous penchant for dressing up their behavior, providing it with religious or patriotic intent. President Bush packaged the Iraq war, for example, as America's mission - having been charged by God to bring the gift of freedom to the world. The "war on terror" was presented through the... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/abuse-of-language-threatens-american-freedoms/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-great-recession-a-spiritual-crisis/ 2010-02-26T21:47:00+02:00 The Great Recession is not just an economic crisis, it is the result of a loss of values, a moral crisis. And to say that it is a moral crisis is also to say that it is a spiritual crisis. At the center of most religions is the question of who and what we worship? Where is our deepest allegiance? So the Great Recession bears some "religious"... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/the-great-recession-a-spiritual-crisis/ http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/now-or-never/ 2010-02-25T17:09:00+02:00 If Barack Obama signs a health care reform bill later this year, today will have been its turning point. For a White House that admitted after Scott Brown's victory that it was facing a new political calculus without a contingency plan, today's summit is a remarkably impressive showing of a well-executed audible play. Just weeks ago, health... http://www.factsandarts.com/articles/now-or-never/