Friday's Daily Brief

Friday, September 23, 2011 Rick Perry, Mitt Romney Square Off In Latest GOP Debate POLITICS GOP Debate Audience's Shocking Reaction To Gay Soldier WORLD Diplomatic World Braces As Palestinians Expected To File For Statehood Today TECHNOLOGY BIG SHAKEUP: HP Confirms New CEO TECHNOLOGY Physicists Claim 'Revolutionary' Discovery EDUCATION The Education Of Arne Duncan BLOG POSTS Joe Peyronnin: The "Shovel-Ready" Debate Even though it is clearly a two-man race for the Republican nomination, many Republicans still haven't decided who to support. In other words, neither candidate is yet shovel-ready. Robert Reich: When Will Wall Street Call for More Federal Spending? The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped another 3 percent today as Wall Street metabolized the truth most Americans already know: We're in a recession. The "double dip" has arrived. Menachem Rosensaft: Ahmadinejad Is the Real Threat It would be foolish in the extreme for any of us to lose sight of the fact that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's continued saber-rattling constitutes a far greater time-bomb than anything that PA President Mahmoud Abbas or any other Palestinian leader says or does. Vicki Larson: Why Cohabiting Is a Bad Idea For Some I am about to say something that many might consider blasphemous: I don't think couples should live together. Melinda Gates: Childhood Deaths Continue to Decline, But Are We Doing All We Can? Each year, I eagerly await the publication of one number: the number of childhood deaths around the world.

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