It's not just college admissions offices that treat boys and girls differently. Research shows that once they graduate from college and enter the workforce, men earn more money than women. Part of the reason for that wage gap could in fact be the decisions women make in college.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has changed his party registration from Republican to Independent, which everyone is taking as a step toward running as a third-party candidate for president. Bloomberg, whose income is said to be about $500 million a year, is capable of self-financing a campaign, and he has very good job ratings as mayor of New York. A mayor or former mayor of New York has not been a serious candidate for president since DeWitt Clinton in 1812. Now we may have two of them in the 2008 race.
How serious is a Bloomberg candidacy? And who does he take votes away from? Speculation about these questions is interesting, but I think the answers depend on who the Republican and Democratic parties nominate.
"I think attempting to bludgeon China is a very risky course," is how Larry Summers, President Clinton's final Treasury secretary and former president of Harvard University, analyzed—in a chat with me this week—the wisdom of congressional attempts to push Beijing into quickly raising the value of its currency vs. the dollar in hopes of reducing America's massive trade deficit. Summers is currently working with his cabinet predecessor, Robert Rubin, to keep alive the embers of Clintonomics—balanced budgets, open trade—through the Hamilton Project, a public-policy initiative sponsored by the Brookings Institution.
AP - Nine caskets lined the front of a coliseum Friday as thousands of firefighters from across the nation, their hats in their hands as bagpipes played, honored nine colleagues killed in a furniture store blaze.
AP - Taliban militants attacked police posts in southern Afghanistan, triggering NATO airstrikes that left 25 civilians dead, including three infants and the local mullah, a senior police officer said Friday.
AP - U.S. troops are searching houses and vehicles to root out hundreds of al-Qaida militants believed holed up in western Baqouba, which has become the center of a massive military offensive, a commander said Friday.
A White House meeting planned for Friday about the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been canceled after The Associated Press reported the Bush administration was "nearing a decision" to close the center.
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