MAY 11, 2011 Shrinking Oil Supplies Put Alaskan Pipeline at Risk By RUSSELL GOLD As less oil runs through the Alaska Pipeline, the crude it carries is cooling. This is raising the risk of ice formation and waxy buildup. WSJ’s Russell Gold reports from Alaska. FAIRBANKS, Alaska—When the famed Trans Alaska Pipeline carried two million […]
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APRIL 30, 2011 Prison guards can retire at the age of 55 and earn 85% of their final year’s salary for the rest of their lives. They also continue to receive medical benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Roughly 2,000 students have to decide by Sunday whether to accept a spot at Harvard. Here’s some advice: Forget
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MAY 4, 2011 The country skipped the housing bust and its budget is headed toward balance. Voters liked it. By DAVID GRATZER In the winter of 1997, two Canadian conservatives wrote a stark essay arguing that conservative governance was an unlikely prospect for their country. The governing Liberal Party was the most electorally successful party
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MAY 3, 2011 The Evidence Is In: School Vouchers Work A study published last year found that D.C. voucher recipients had graduation rates of 91%. That’s significantly higher than the public school average of 56%. By JASON L. RILEY ‘Private school vouchers are not an effective way to improve student achievement,” said the White House
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MAY 3, 2011 The killing of Shiites in Iraq was Bin Laden’s undoing in the eyes of many Muslims By REUEL MARC GERECHT Like all fundamentalists, Osama bin Laden was attuned to the past. When his speeches weren’t about the economic decline of America, they recalled Islam’s classical age, especially the rise of the Prophet
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MAY 2, 2011, 12:09 A.M. ET Osama Bin Laden Is Dead By LAURA MECKLER and ADAM ENTOUS WASHINGTON– Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, President Obama said. The U.S. has his body in its possession, U.S. officials said late Sunday.Osama bin Laden Mr. bin Laden was killed in a joint raid overnight Sunday
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APRIL 26, 2011 Arab peoples aren’t obsessed with anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism. It’s their rulers who are. By JOSEF JOFFE Mr. Joffe is senior fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and a fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford. In politics, shoddy theories never die. In the Middle East, one of the oldest
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APRIL 26, 2011, 10:30 A.M. ET Our auto industry took off because workers could choose whether or not to join a union. By LAMAR ALEXANDERMr. Alexander is a U.S. senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. He is also a former governor of Tennessee. The National Labor Relations Board has moved to
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APRIL 25, 2011 It is unlikely that the Gadhafis and Mubaraks could have entertained thoughts of succession for their sons had they not seen the ease with which Syria became an odd creature—a republican monarchy. By FOUAD AJAMI Mr. Ajami is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior
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APRIL 25, 2011 The subsidies to buyers of ‘qualifying’ insurance policies will induce sharp reductions in the supply of labor. By DANIEL P. KESSLER Mr. Kessler is professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge it will have some unintended consequences. Yet surprisingly
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