Subject: Share the View: Keeping Dennis Hastert's Secrets
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Share The View

The Latest Opinions From Bloomberg View

May 30, 2015

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Stephen L. Carter: What lesso=s does "The Great Gatsby" hold for this year's crop of graduates? "Your ta=k, members of the Class of 2015, is to handle disagreement, pain and offen=e better than we did -- and, in so doing, make Nick Carraway proud. And al=hough we may forget to say so, the rest of us will be proud of you too." Read more...=/p>

LAW

Noah Feldman: "Dennis Hastert=has a secret -- one he was willing to pay
$3.5 million to keep quiet, =nd which the U.S. government is also now
hiding. ... Either Hastert di= something terrible, in which case the government shouldn't be suppressing=it, or Hastert was being unjustifiably blackmailed, in which case the gove=nment shouldn't be prosecuting him for breaking the withdrawal laws to avo=d ruin." Read more...=/a>

DECLASSIFIED

Josh Rogin: "Terrorism in Sou=heast Asia is not new. More than 200 people died in the Bali bombings in 2=02. Jemaah Islamiyah almost succeeded in a plot to bomb diplomatic offices=in Singapore just after Sept. 11, 2001. But the development that Southeast=Asian terror groups are now flying the black Islamic State flag -- and tha= young men from the region are saluting -- is a huge problem." Read more...

Eli Lake: "In the month befor= the city of Ramadi in western Iraq fell, U.S. airstrikes destroyed an arm=red personnel carrier, three Humvees, three tanks, four mortars, four gun-=ounted pickup trucks and two vehicle bombs belonging to Islamic State outs=de the city. On Friday, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Fickel, a spokesman for U=S. Central Command, shared this data with me, adding that the U.S. also hi= 25 'fighting positions' and 14 pieces of 'miscellaneous equipment.'" Read more...

SPORTS

Leonid Bershidsky: "The mega-=vents that FIFA and the IOC stage -- the soccer World Cups and the Olympic= -- are ideal vehicles for corruption. They are vanity projects for govern=ents because they put a country and a city in the media spotlight, bring i= crowds and guarantee politicians a grand legacy." Read more...

2016 ELECTIONS

Jonathan Bernstein: "Former M=ryland Governor Martin O’Malley this weekend kicks off his campaig= for the Democratic nomination for president. He’s not going to wi=, either." Read more.=.

FOOD

Megan McArdle: "We should coo= the family foods we love because we love them. We should make good food b=cause it's good. But we should not imagine that in doing so, we can go bac= to the way things used to be. We can't, and if we could, we wouldn't much=like it." Read more..=

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