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Gore can promise a boatload of money for programs (and another $480 billion for tax cuts) yet still lay claim to eliminating the debt because of the government's forecast of a gaudy $4.6 trillion budget surplus over the next decade. The projected income may or may not materialize, depending on how the economy performs, but it allows him to boast of putting aside $2.8 trillion for Social Security and Medicare while leaving a $300 billion "rainy-day fund" untouched. Although his Medicare plan would encourage price competition between managed-care providers--it's not the one-size-fits...
...helped here but will it work elsewhere--say, Iraq? Some are skeptical that fostering civil society is the best way to bring down a tyrant, arguing that it is often effective only when combined with strong sanctions and, occasionally, force. Among the strongest critics of the U.S. program in Serbia was Vojislav Kostunica, who publicly scorned Western money as outside interference (though his coalition partners were big recipients). And using cash to embolden an opposition can be a tricky business, especially if it slips into support for covert action. Critics say the millions the U.S. has dumped on the troubled...
...past, concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals. An estimated 10,000 people from every imaginable professional background now call themselves coaches--twice the number there were in 1998. Some 4,000 would-be coaches are enrolled in a telephone-based training program called Coach U, which takes about two years and $4,300 to complete. And the field is benefiting from the Oprah effect. When her talk show last spring featured coach Cheryl Richardson (author of the best seller Take Time for Your Life), who conducted "lifestyle makeovers" on the air, the Coach...
When "Lady" passed on unexpectedly, followed by Marshall's wife, "he was devastated," Van Dyke said. Only after an extensive recovery program at the local strip joints did he regain his vigor. "I said, 'I heard you're in love again. Who is it?'" Van Dyke says. "He said, 'Go to the drugstore and pick up this month's Playboy...
Though Smith grew up in Texas, it was apparent that NASA's rocket program was not in the cards. But she was clever enough to know her strengths. The night Marshall rolled into the nudie bar she was performing in and fell head over wheels in love, Smith hit a gusher...