Wednesday's Daily Brief

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Arianna Huffington: On Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Shakespeare, and the Enemy in the Mirror Arianna Huffington: With graduations and commencement speeches in the air, I've been, more than usual, in a philosophical mood this month. One of the things this self-reflection -- aided and abetted by a flurry of recent headlines -- has led to is a reminder that, in the game of life, as Cassius said in Julius Caesar, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars -- but in ourselves..." Dominique Strauss-Kahn might likely have imagined the greatest obstacles to his ambitions to be President Nicolas Sarkozy or his chief rivals in France's Socialist Party. But while all the facts about what did or didn't happen in that $3,000-a-night New York hotel suite aren't in, it's clear that the competitor who ultimately did Strauss-Kahn in wasn't one of his political rivals, it was himself. Pogo had it right: "We have met the enemy and he is us." GREEN Oklahoma Tornadoes Cause Multiple Fatalities POLITICS Why Medicare Will Be The Issue Of 2012 WORLD Israeli Prime Minister Speaks To U.S. Congress In Rare Address BUSINESS Recession Destroyed Retirement Savings For One Out Of Four Older Workers: Survey MEDIA WATCH: Oprah Gets A Surprise Tribute From Stedman BLOG POSTS Marlo Thomas: Free to Be... Not Anymore For all the walls we thought we'd broken down with Free to Be -- and all the stereotypes we thought we'd shattered -- children today are not free to be anything they want to be, and they are dying for it. Jason Linkins: As GOP 2012 Field Firms Up, So Does Discontent Over The GOP 2012 Field Today, right-leaning pundits feel about the same way they felt about the GOP presidential field last week: let down and hoping for a white knight to emerge. Therese Borchard: Music Therapy: Got the Blues? Play Them Before Prozac and Zoloft, music was my sole therapy. And I'm not alone: the website of the American Music Therapy Association lists 57 pages of research articles chronicling the successful use of music to treat a host of different illnesses. Andy Ostroy: Democrats Win NY's 26th -- Does Gingrich Have it Right? If Democrats were smart, they'd co-opt Kathy Hochul's winning strategy and aggressively run with it nationally all the way to November 2012. The GOP's attack on Medicare is the absolute perfect bumper-sticker issue for them. Ian Fletcher: How China Plans to Leapfrog the American Economy (And it's Not What You Think) Beijing makes plans in very long increments. They, unlike our own election-cycle worshiping rulers, think through where they want their country to be 100 years from now. This is why China is busy economically colonizing Africa and is making fools of us in Afghanistan

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