In other words, Columbia is depriving a white student of funding from this scholarship fund solely because he or she is white?  I'd call that race-based discrimination.

Number 981 on my list of things that will never happen:  We get an Orthodox Jewish reality show so we can gawk on TV at their daily lives like we do the Amish.

Having seen more than a few severely autistic kids and having watched video on this kid, he is not autistic.  Well-meaning teachers and diagnosticians should tread cautiously when labeling children with no disability other than being different from them.

If they could strike a balance somewhere between plus size and anorexia, it might be more broadly applicable.

Agreed.  The point is that the very people that touted these programs as the greatest thing since sliced bread at the time and who participated in raping Social Security are now looking for ways to scale back their commitment.

Psssst!  Third Way is a Democrat think tank.  You know, like the scum in the White House?

Third Way, a Democratic "think" tank.  Now there's an oxymoron.  Who exactly do you think enacted all these programs?  [clue:  it wasn't senior citizens]

Remarkably cruel, tasteless, and gutless.  I was hoping that the last guy would be flattened by a semi as he backed into the street.

"...you can't say when a crash might begin. What is simply not clear is if there's a catalyst to blow the market apart."   In other words, you can't answer the question posed and this article has no raison d'etre.  So stop wasting our time on babble.