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...unable to hang the recession on him, but many hope that Enron's hapless employees--whose retirement nest eggs vaporized even as their bosses were selling off more than $1 billion of their own stock--become the image that sticks. The Enron debacle goes to one of the most basic questions Americans ask about their President: Whose side is he on? Pre-September surveys showed a hardening perception that Bush doesn't care about the concerns of the average person. In a New York Times poll last June, 57% of those surveyed said the Administration's policies favored the rich...
Here are a few basic principles, news to nobody. Sports stoke adrenaline, laying out a drama that usually ends in an unambiguous win or loss. "Fan" is short for fanatic; each close pitch or missed basket or hard body check makes manic-depressives of a team's rooters. And some parents are among the most rabid, reckless fans. Inflating their kids' skills, magnifying a child's lapses, they can make dinnertime a celebration or an inquisition; and if they don't take out their frustration on the infant athletes, they may attack the arbiters. "Kill the umpire" is only...
...keep families fed and clothed, available public aid should be ignored. And finally there are studies that rely on “expert budgets,” which in turn are based on individual, normative assessments of what constitutes deprivation. One such expert told the HCECP that a basic budget for a 4-person Boston family was $51,000 a year, an income greater than that of the median American family and well into the 99th percentile for the world’s population...
...Despite Sharon's vow to teach Arafat the lesson of his life, the Israeli leader has few good options. While another round of attacks on PA targets will punish Arafat for failing to stop the latest attacks, they are unlikely to change the basic deadlock. Few Israeli commentators these days believe that, almost one year after being elected on promises to stamp out Palestinian violence and ensure Israeli security, Sharon has a political or military program that can transform the violent face-off into a decisive defeat of the intifada. While the term is still used, the current violence...
...design which, like the CTS's, makes you look twice. The Altima's interior is a little on the plasticky side, and for some reason its side mirrors don't fold away, but the price is right, around $23,000 for the V6 (a mere $17,000 for the basic 4 cyl. version). And the Altima is the first commonplace sedan to draw a second and third look on the road. You can't say that for Toyota's redesigned Camry, which costs more and has the decided feel of a lightweight...