Wednesday's Daily Brief

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Arianna Huffington: Back to School and Deeper in Debt Arianna Huffington: With a new class of students starting college this month -- replacing a class that just graduated into a historically bad job market -- there's no better time for another installment of our "Majoring in Debt" series, which examines the mountainous student debt college graduates are facing, how it will affect their futures, and what it will mean for the future of America. When I was 16 and living in Greece, I saw a magazine article about Cambridge and was overcome by a desire to study there. And I was lucky enough to get in. In the years after graduating, pretty much every break I got could be traced back to that experience. But, increasingly, graduating from college no longer means putting your education to work for you -- it now means being a virtual indentured servant to your education. Instead of propelling you into the future, more and more it means trapping you in the past. POLITICS Obama Said To Be Looking At $300 Billion Jobs Plan TECHNOLOGY Yahoo CEO Out CRIME Suspect In Deadly IHOP Shooting Identified WORLD Bomb Explodes Outside Indian Court EDUCATION D.C. Schools Revises Controversial Teacher Evaluation System BLOG POSTS Michael Oreskes: New York's 9/11, and Not Letting Go Not letting go permeates the city these days. In large ways and small, New Yorkers still are trying to refill the empty sky that Bruce Springsteen mourned. Lee Harrington: 'Falling Man' Helped Me Face My Own Fears And so I ventured forth, on my own. There was still the fear that I wouldn't make it on my own. And it was quite possible I would, in the end, still die alone. But I had to try. I had to try to be fearless. Just as the Falling Man had tried. Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: Is The Glass Half Full? Saying Yes Might Make You Healthier Pessimism can be bad for your health, and it could lead to heart disease and strokes. You may not be able turn to yourself into a whistling, wide-eyed optimist, but it is worth the effort to shed yourself of cynical hostility. Manal Omar: Getting to Know the Opposition With the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, Libya has a whole new political spectrum that covers a formal transitional government to remnants of the monarchy. Each will play some telling role over the next few months. Leo C. Wolinsky: Hollywood's New Starving Stars A new generation of young movie producers has appeared on the scene, making low-budget films without the backing -- or interference -- of big studios.

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