REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
April 15, 2012

'California State University is withholding financial
aid for about 20,000 needy graduate students - money
that pays their tuition - pending a decision that could
permanently end the cash grants, The Chronicle has
learned.

'Graduate students across the 23-campus system began
receiving financial aid notices this week and were
astonished to see that the State University Grant that
takes care of tuition for low-income students was
missing. In its place was the offer of a federal loan
at 6.8 percent interest.

'"I thought it was a mistake, that someone messed up at
the financial aid office," said Hayley Leventhal, who
is in the first year of a two-year master's program in
counseling at San Francisco State University.'

San Francisco Chronicle
April 14, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/76r4j6l

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7uv4ax8
The Other Stand Your Ground
Tom Toles - Washington Post

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
April 16, 2012

'I wanted to increase the work requirement. I said, for
instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age,
you need to go to work. And people said, 'Well that's
heartless.' And I said, 'No, no, I'm willing to spend
more giving day care to allow those parents to go back
to work. It'll cost the state more providing that
daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity
of work.'

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney
in New Hampshire in January

Huffington Post
April 15, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/bmcxmg7

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7x9o2lr
Tax Day Blues
Joel Pett / Lexington Herald-Leader

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
April 17, 2012

'The United States is getting accustomed to a
completely crazy level of inequality. People say that
reducing inequality is radical. I think that tolerating
the level of inequality the United States tolerates is
radical.'

French economist Thomas Piketty
New York Times
April 17, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/ceu5n42

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/6twsjmz
Titanic
Ed Stein

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
April 18, 2012

'Just as women had assumed their contraception rights
were safe, they had considered the tiresome debate
about working moms versus stay-at-home moms over. My
mom stayed home to raise five kids, and she is my
feminist role model.

'For the most part, nobody's casting aspersions on
anybody else's choices, which are often driven by
economics. Women have so many choices that they're
overwhelmed by the stress of so many choices.

'The real issue is whether Mitt, a tycoon who has been
swathed in an old-fashioned cocoon, understands the
plight of working mothers and the rights of 21st-
century women. '

Columnist Maureen Dowd
New York Times
April 18, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/bs46cfe

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7v49l99
My Tax Check, Sir
Pat Oliphant

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
April 19, 2012

'...the Bahraini government wants to bask in the
positive international publicity it anticipates
receiving through the Formula One motor race going
ahead. Yet all the signs are that the government is
likely to intensify its harsh clampdown on local
activists before and during the Grand Prix, with these
and other so-called "security measures" risking
endangering human rights activists, racegoers and
Formula One team members alike.

'Until the government of Bahrain shows a real
commitment to reforms promised in the Bahrain
Independent Commission for Inquiry report last November
and respects the fundamental human rights of its own
citizens, international events such as the Bahrain
Grand Prix should not proceed.'

Kirsty Hughes, Chief Executive,
Index on Censorship
April 12, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/7je4omx

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/887muye
The Center
Mike Luckovich

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
April 20, 2012

'I think this is about really a big question about how
we see our future. Are we really a people who say, "I
got mine. The rest of you are on your own." Or are we a
people who say, "This is about -- we have to make the
investments in our future. We're the ones who together
create opportunity for our kids, for our tomorrow." I
think it's about that,'

U.S. Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren
(D-Mass.) on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show
Real Clear Politics
April 20, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/7826n2a

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/883yayr
European Cuts
Trouw - Amsterdam

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
April 21, 2012

'Several dozen people have been killed in protests
since the start of the year and a leading opposition
activist, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, is on hunger strike in
prison. Even John Yates, formerly of Scotland Yard, who
is currently advising the Bahrain government, has said
that the security of the race cannot be guaranteed.

'Security, though, is not the prime reason why the
Grand Prix should have been cancelled. The more
compelling consideration is moral. Bahrain sees the
race as a chance to showcase the country's material
progress. The continuing protests, however, show that
there is a different, and darker, side. Which, in turn,
demonstrates that, even now, the authorities do not
hold all the cards. The glare of the publicity and the
controversy itself give the protesters a chance to make
their case to a global audience. They should make the
most of it. Last year's cancellation was seen by
Bahrain's leaders as a humiliation. This year's Grand
Prix has the potential to discredit the kingdom all
over again, and Formula One as well.'

The Independent (UK)
April 21, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/7pyqg2d

Ton of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7bjoblt
Smokescreen
Ingram Pitt - Financial Times

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