The United States spends more money than any other country, and its elite institutions are the world's best. But overall the system is wasteful, fails too many ---- and is falling behind other countries.
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SACRAMENTO ---- Attorney General Jerry Brown has relied on a stealth fundraising campaign and his near universal name recognition to wipe out the field seven months ahead of California's Democratic primary for governor.
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Since the recession began, nearly 1 million Californians have lost their jobs. In August, only three California industries added jobs ---- one of them was our state government. Yes, despite the famous California furloughs, our government has added another 2,000 people to the payroll.
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Last month, I explored the merits and demerits of the Carlsbad Energy Center ---- the contentious attempt to overhaul the aging Encina Power Station ---- and concluded that the project's benefits outweighed its costs.
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BERLIN ---- Angela Merkel, the first leader of reunited Germany to grow up under communist rule, has worked as chancellor to warm up ties with the United States ---- a country she couldn't travel to until she was in her mid-30s.
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BERLIN ---- Stroke by stroke, Gerhard Kriedner applied pink acrylic paint with a small brush on a 14-yard stretch of the Berlin Wall, recreating the mural he first painted months after the Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989.
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WASHINGTON ---- Carly Fiorina's claim to fame ---- her 5 1/2 years as chief executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. ---- could also be her greatest vulnerability in next year's U.S. Senate race in California.
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WASHINGTON ---- Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a sharp generational schism has formed in how people in Europe's former communist countries view the shift to democracy and capitalism, a survey has found.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ---- If Western leaders were still puzzling over Iran's approach to nuclear talks, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offered a timely tutorial.
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President Obama, and the Democrats, find themselves between a rock and a hard place.
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In September, President Obama described a pressing national concern of the utmost importance thusly: "We cannot wait any longer ... There comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now."
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WASHINGTON ---- The same president who aggressively harnesses the power of the press to promote his agenda has taken to lacing his comments with criticisms of the media, with no bigger target than the gabby culture of cable television.
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EDITOR'S NOTE -- An occasional look at assertions by government officials and how well they adhere to the facts
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WASHINGTON ---- At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world's largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.
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