This week's NY Times

Out of all the stories I have read in the Times this week, the ones that caught my eye the most are all about President Obama and the economy. These stories really interested me because as a poor college student, I am really hoping the economy picks up by the time I graduate. By the looks of these stories, I am really not sure if that will happen. Today I read about how President Obama has formed his own Economic Recovery Board in order to help with his stimulus plan and other plans for the economy.

As a person who did not actually vote for Obama (probably the only person on the entire UNH campus who didn't!), I am very interested to see what will happen with his stimulus plan and other plans for this country. While I am not sure that I agree with all of his ideas, I am really hoping that he is able to pull the economy out of its current state. Otherwise, I think I am destined to be living in my parents basement.

While stories about the economy caught my eye because it is something that worries me a lot, another story caught my eye this week that I found extremely interesting. In Thursday's NY Times, on the front page, there was a story about a Nazi war criminal who had been a fugitive for years, and how is it now known where he had been hiding since the war. I found this story very intriguing, as the people that he lived with in Egypt (the place where he had been hiding out) had described him as the kind of person anyone would love to be friends with. He was nice to their children and gave to the community and seemed extremely friendly and loving. This amazed me- that a man who could perform such terrible atrocities to Jews during the Holocaust could then be such a nice person. I suppose he was trying to make up for his mistakes, or maybe this story is the perfect example of how even good people can be caught up in terrible things. Mob mentality to the extreme. Whatever the case, this story definitely made me want to read more.