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...deficit? "We have got a deficit because this economy went into a recession," and "we have got a recession because we went to war. And I told the American people...we're going to spend whatever money is necessary to make sure we win." In other words: Don't blame me for a weak economy...
...growth turned positive in the last quarter of 2001, beginning Oct. 1, so it is bizarre to blame the recession on the events of 9/11--which occurred 19 days before the recession officially began to turn around. It is even more bizarre for Bush to blame the recession on money spent fighting the war on terrorism. War spending is historically a way out of a recession, not into...
...Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is beautiful, sexy, 10 years younger--and bored out of her mind in Botswana. Her unhappiness eats away at Ray's sense of self-worth, as does her increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay, witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly...
...Public Enemy Number One. We criticized his every decision and opinion, ranging from his revised alcohol policies to his views on randomization and the structure of the Philip Brooks House Association. Though we acknowledged at one point that “it may be wrong to pin blame for all the evils of the world on Dean Lewis,” (Editorial, Sept. 17, 1996) at times it certainly seemed that The Crimson thought that most of the evil lay at his feet...
...know when the promised boost is going to kick in. "These things take time," will be the inevitable answer. True, but not enough, especially since Bush's promises about the economic turnaround that would follow his $1.4 trillion tax cut in 2001 went unfilled. The White House could blame 9/11 and two wars for that. This time, reporters - and voters - will expect more...