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Other studies paint a grimmer picture. The National Association of Women Business Owners puts the number of lost jobs nationally at 39 per small business over the past five years. It found that to prepare for the estate tax, half of all small businesses pay for insurance, 40% forgo investment, 40% plan to sell all or part of the business and 33% plan to incur debt--all choices that hurt the economy...
...promoting. They begin with a love song. Huy frowns. "Now that could be a problem for us if the police come in." The song is by a Vietnamese band in the U.S. "Not allowed here." More than anything, Huy wants to make money. Fast. "Business is good. Artists paint so many pictures. Why? To make money. Singers write songs--to make money. With money you can live." Huy wanted to study in the U.S. but couldn't get a visa. He says it doesn't matter much. "I can get what I need from the Internet." The bar is doing...
...year for the Harvard-Yale game. I came to Harvard with no interest (or even really a clear understanding) of football. However, The Game is the annual outburst of school spirit on campus. When it's between us and our rivals down south, we're suddenly free to paint our faces, dress in crimson and scream for our school. However, when we all trot down to Soldier's Field, we're in for a disappointment. We are the mighty Harvard Crimson, and, as a color, we have no clear mascot. So, being traditionalists, our school has adopted the head...
...their standards, but even from the earliest days, he was also the protector, fiercely defending his dad. His father ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964, opposing the civil rights bill and supporting Barry Goldwater all the way. His opponent, Senator Ralph Yarborough, lost no chance to paint Bush as a preppy-come-lately, not one of us. "Elect a Senator from Texas and not the Connecticut investment bankers," went the Yarborough campaign chants. As W. worked on his dad's campaign during his summer before college, he saw how poisonous the not-one-of-us stereotype could...
This is at least the fourth biography of Hearst and is far and away the best. Given access to Hearst's correspondence with his editors and his family, Nasaw has used the raw material brilliantly to paint a richly textured picture of the man who for decades did so much to shape political debate...