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...women that begins very young. In the book you write of berating yourself for not pushing President Clinton strongly enough to make a statement following the disaster in Waco, Texas. You quote Lois Wyse, who wrote, ?Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.? As a working mother, how do you help your young daughter close that...
...Before Sept. 11, the American economy had been expanding every month for 133 months. That created all kinds of distortions and excesses, and the economy was already slowing down. Sept. 11 just accelerated the trend. The attacks gave a license to the private sector to restructure ? firing people, closing down divisions, retrenching from overseas operations ? more quickly and drastically. Sept. 11 may be to the 2000s what the junk bonds and leveraged buyouts were for the 1980s. Companies will clean up their acts and become leaner and more competitive...
...other effect of Sept. 11 is the return of the deficit. Before this happened, the debate was over how the U.S. government would spend the surplus. Now the U.S. is spending like there's no tomorrow ? on the stimulus, on the war, on homeland defense. Nobody really knows how much the U.S. is spending now. That plus declining revenues mean a deficit...
...will ensure and safeguard our way of life against those who would take our freedom away." The bill is expected to become law by Christmas. Though many argue that measures like these deprive people of their freedoms too, Britain isn?t the only European country re-examining its police powers ? or the only one raising the hackles of civil libertarians...
...Will it last? No. As Witold Rybczynski, an American professor, recently said, "We are not a shy people ? and skyscrapers declare that...