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...documentary, two leading Parkinson's researchers have begun full-time investigation into why ecstasy has such a dramatic effect on his condition. The documentary, to be aired this week, shows Lawrence in a gym doing forward rolls, somersaults, backflips and swallow dives despite his debilitating condition. The researchers, Professor Alan R. Crossman and Dr. Jonathan M. Brotchie of the University of Manchester, are trying to find a component of the banned substance that might be developed into a safe drug to mimic ecstasy's good effects while suppressing the bad, which include memory loss, brain cell death and depression...
During the campaign, Bush's tax-cut plan seemed too grandiose to many voters. But layoffs, slipping economic indicators and a blessing from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan made the idea credible--and now Washington can smell a big tax cut the way hogs smell slop. Politicians are scrambling to the trough. Some of their schemes are well-intended--Senate majority leader Trent Lott wants to change the alternative minimum tax so it doesn't take such a big bite out of middle-class taxpayers--but all of them threaten to grow the beast. Lott's plan would bring Bush...
Professors Lawrence H. Tribe '62 and Alan M. Dershowitz figured prominently in the Democratic camp and Professors Elhauge and Charles A. Fried argued on the Republican side...
...Democrats came after him a little harder this time, now that the tax cut is in their laps instead of on the horizon, but Alan Greenspan didn't get this far as an economist (and a politician) without leaving himself plenty of outs...
...Economists don't pin down easy, and with Alan Greenspan, of course, evasiveness an art. He buried Schumer in a haze of "dynamic model" talk that had just the slightest whiff of Reaganomics to it but came to nothing. When Sarbanes got through insulting Greenspan in other people's words, Greenspan curtly quoted his own stuff, the "cautionary note" kicker about government piggishness from his previous testimony. But certainly, if those surpluses were to disappear in a gold rush of discretionary spending, Greenspan admitted, his tax-cut arithmetic would be "mispositioned, if I may put it that...