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...BOTTOM LINE Economists doubt that either plan would stimulate the economy or generate jobs. The wealthy are spending what they want to, explains Beth Ann Bovino, economist at Standard & Poor's, while everyone else is struggling with higher prices and stagnant wages. Both candidates draw fire for ignoring what their tax plans will do to the deficit. "This is a gigantic time bomb," says David Bradford of Princeton University. As with any business, when the Federal Government runs in the red, borrowing gets more expensive. The result? Interest rates could rise, and in the long run, the government would find...
...vote for John Kerry and giving us a concert. It's fine to encourage us to vote, but my generation will be effective members of society only if we form our political opinions based on the facts and not on the views of pop-culture icons. Tiffany Ann Fletcher Newton...
Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, whom Bush defeated, had warned Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle that Bush's friendliness was just a show. Bush, she claimed, would do anything to get his way. A former Air Force intelligence officer, Daschle is plenty tough as well. He was called the Velvet Hammer for moving softly behind the scenes to enforce discipline within his party. By fall the battle lines had been drawn--and then, in an instant, everything changed. Two days after 9/11, Daschle stood at a rare bipartisan lunch. "We're not Democrats here, and we're not Republicans," Daschle...
...vote for John Kerry and giving us a concert. It's fine to encourage us to vote, but my generation will be effective members of society only if we form our political opinions based on the facts and not on the views of pop-culture icons. Tiffany Ann Fletcher Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. The Center Cannot Hold? In his column "America divided? It's Only the Blabocrats" [Aug. 16], Joe Klein suggested that the great partisan divide in the U.S. is a "media-induced mirage" and that the populace in general is "far less vehement" than the "media yakkers" would have...
...quietly productive (he could pound out a novel's first draft in days), and fit as an oak (thanks to daily calisthenics). Many of those qualities can be traced to Wodehouse's Woosterish upbringing. A descendant of Norfolk nobility, including a sister of Henry VIII's ill-fated wife Ann Boleyn, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse rarely saw his parents - a colonial administrator and his dour wife. The young "Plum," as Pelham was nicknamed, was raised by nannies and schoolmasters to become an athletic but bookishly solitary child, reading the Iliad at age 6 and penning his first story at 7. When...