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...reason is not because they wear brightly colored clothes and we all wear black. The reason is not because they are the only ones who patronize three card monte dealers in Times Square. The reason is not even that you can't get close to a counter in Saks Fifth Avenue to buy your wife a Christmas present...
...understand that Omaha is in the Great Plains, where space is not at a premium. You can pirouette down the sidewalk in Omaha if you want to. But space is limited here in New York City. And no New Yorker ever walks more than two abreast; even if you're in a group of ten people, you'll walk in five pairs, not ten across. Or even better, single file...
...payoffs have been even greater on the local level. Consider El Paso, Texas, where one-third of the adult residents cannot read English and last year only 75% graduated from high school. Ten years ago, the University of Texas at El Paso joined with that city's community leaders and three of its largest and lowest-performing school districts. Today UTEP's mark is apparent everywhere, from the schools' cheery hallways (the once drab corridors are papered over with student artwork) to test scores...
...Even before he was declared President-elect, George W. Bush had become bear in chief. For weeks he?s been warning that the U.S. economy is in for hard times. He may steer clear himself of the term recession. ?Possible slowdown? is one way he puts it. But dirty work is what Vice Presidents are for. So Dick Cheney has been sent out to say the forbidden word. As early as Dec. 3, he was on Meet the Press warning that the nation ?may well be on the front edge of a recession...
...Then again, he and Cheney are just enlarging on what everybody is already thinking?that even if we can avoid a real recession, meaning two consecutive quarters in which the economy shrinks, a slowdown in the rapid growth of the ?90s is plainly in store. The dwindling nasdaq says it all. If those sputtering dotcoms are the economic engines of the future, then the future?s just not what it used...