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...version of economics, the absence of competition means that all production is efficient and goods are cheap. Since there is enough for everybody, greed has disappeared and so has money. People are issued something like credit cards with which they can draw whatever they need from common stores. Every citizen must serve in a kind of workers' army in which all get the same pay. In lieu of financial incentives there is patriotism and "passion for humanity." People marry each other only for the finest moral and physical qualities; the race has been "purified." A minor detail symbolizes the collectivist...
...interview with TIME, President Clinton referred to a private citizen as "Joe Six-Pack" [NATION, April 13]. I object to this characterization. Clinton's arrogance and obvious disregard for the average person is appalling. During the 1992 campaign, President George Bush called Clinton a "bozo." At the time, I thought Bush's comment was unstatesmanlike. But now I'm wondering if Bush didn't have a greater insight into Clinton's character than anyone imagined. LARRY MUNSTERMAN Pacific City...
Levitin's historical comparisons of contemporary Israel to ancient Sparta and Athens was especially remarkable, simply because they ring so true. Like the ancient Athenian democracy, Israel is an armed citizen-state that must remain continually wary of its neighbors. And while we sitting comfortably here in the West might see an Israel at peace with Egypt and Jordan, our "reality" may well turn out to be an illusion. If either of these countries were to ever fall to the forces of Islamic-fundamentalism, the "situation on the ground" would be dramatically transformed. Israel would most certainly find itself...
...Finance 46 minutes per citizen on the Psychic Friends Network...
...become a financial institution." But Gates could find the insular banking world a tough nut to crack. Well before MSFDC, the industry launched the software consortium Integrion as its bulwark against territorial infringement. Today Integrion competes with MSFDC even as it licenses Microsoft Money. Microsoft, meanwhile, plays the good citizen, agreeing to abide by the E-commerce software platform that an industry group will release this August. For now, at least, it looks like everyone can just get along...