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Enter eight reindeer, to the sound of sleigh bells. Supply-side theory, developed by Jude Wanniski and Arthur Laffer and passionately advanced by New York Representative Jack Kemp, held that sharp cuts in income taxes would actually increase government revenues by unleashing the pent-up power of the economy. Jobs and higher wages would explode like popcorn, from which higher tax revenues would follow, despite the lower rates. In no time, the supply-side theory went from being a disputed intellectual curiosity to being the unofficial doctrine of the party. It made possible a new, infinitely optimistic Republicanism, one that...
...makings of pop immortality: overnight stardom, singing Walkin' After Midnight on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show; a string of pop and country hits (Crazy, She's Got You, I Fall to Pieces and the peerless heart crusher, Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside...
Grief, and nothing but grief, remains after the loss of someone who was gentle, friendly and always encouraging others to further efforts to do better. Such a person was Arthur Benjamin, my teacher in Philadelphia, where I stayed in 1991. I was paralyzed upon seeing his photograph in Time among the victims of the 747 crash. I will never forget his wonderful teaching and paternal support. The greatest loss to humanity is the loss of people like him. RAFAL ZYGMUNT Lublin, Poland Via E-mail...
There, he served a diverse array of clients, including some of the University's biggest names: Arthur Schlesinger, Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Loeb University Professor Emeritus Archibald...
According to Arthur L.L. Santiago, another summer school student and Thayer resident, the male and female student put up their hands in what appeared to Santiago to be a play-fight...