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Across America, the recession has hit hard. Ivy League universitiesare no exception. At Brown and Yale students and administrators have found out that even in the Tower...
First, while good intentions might seem like an admirable thing to have, the phrase also conjures up an image of woolly-minded naivete. Those dear old liberals, sitting in their ivory-tower rocking chairs, knitting vast social- welfare blankets from skeins of good intentions and taxpayer money -- What do they know about the real world? The implication is that good intentions are not merely insufficient but even detrimental to the hard business of facing up to the hard truths about poverty and race. Good intentions are for sissies...
THEY'VE BEEN SAYING IT FOR EIGHT CENTURIES, BUT this time it's really true: the Leaning Tower of Pisa could fall down any minute. The white marble monument, which now leans 16.5 ft. off center at the top, has been closed to tourists for two years while an international panel of experts came up with a plan for saving it. Everybody has ideas, including a Florentine who suggested erecting a massive statue of Pisa's patron, St. Ranieri, to hold up the bell tower, but engineers finally decided on a more mundane approach. About 800 tons of lead ingots...
Ross Perot, the plutocrat populist poised for the presidency, holds court from the 17th floor of a North Dallas office tower -- a memorabilia-filled aerie (the artistic motif is Rockwell paintings and Frederic Remington sculptures, and Perot is happy to tell with a chuckle what he paid for almost everything) that radiates almost preternatural calm. His desk is clean, save for the week's schedule of media interviews and a list of Perot coordinators in all 50 states. But at a time when Bush and Clinton are racing around the country, giving speeches, honing positions, posing against scenic backdrops, this...
...sole purpose of screwing over the USA. The USA, you see, didn't lose jobs because that's what happens in every natural economic downturn. No, we were exporting them to Japan Free trade is fine if you're a fuddy duddy economist trapped in an ivory tower, but for real people in the real world the catch phrase was (and is) "Buy American." Economists might have studies and data, but they don't truly understand our economy an all its subtle nuances; only the untrained, Nintendodulled masses understand that...