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Harvard's introductory economics course, affectionately known as "Ec 10" by government and fine arts concentrators alike, boasts an enrollment of 1,021 students this semester. But Ec 10 is only an introduction that acquaints its students with the basic tools of micro-and macroeconomics. It effectively enables them to read The Wall Street Journal and understand what, for example, a rise in interest rates actually means...
...More basic have been strategic questions such as how far to move toward the G.O.P.'s higher Medicare cuts and how much to slash discretionary spending in the later years of the five-year budget. Seasoned congressional hands, such as the departing Panetta and legislative-affairs director John Hilley, had argued for holding fast to what had proved to be a winning position last year. As Panetta said of Raines in an interview, "Inevitably, he's going to have to hold his cards when it comes to a negotiation." Raines and Bowles wanted to show more flexibility early...
...standard bearers of the computer revolution, the techies who run America Online have a pretty shaky grasp of basic math. Let's see: you're the most successful online service in Internet history, with membership rolls shooting up in only three years from 500,000 to 7 million. You're about to launch a snazzy TV ad campaign built around a radical change in pricing policy: from stiff, pay-by-the-hour bills to unlimited all-you-can-eat access to the Internet for $19.95 a month. Yet you have added only a modest number of modems...
...Carolco Pictures was the producer of such juggernauts as Basic Instinct and a brace of Rambos. Now it's scrounging around for old props. After the huge, expensive stinkball Cutthroat Island was wrapped, some items weremissing. Oddly enough, a cannon, some maps, a peg leg and one of GEENA DAVIS' outfits turned up in Planet Hollywood Helsinki, co-owned by the movie's director and Davis' spouse RENNY HARLIN (the one with longer hair than MATTHEW MODINE's). Carolco says they were removed from the set without permission. Harlin's people say the props were given to the director because...
Some authorities estimate that a majority of job seekers cannot find work because they lack the basic skills for employment, such as getting to the job on time, putting in an honest day's work, being dressed and groomed appropriately, being drug free and getting along with fellow workers and the boss. These skills are learned in the home. Until we address this problem, no federal program is going to change anything. GIDEON JONES Tallahassee, Florida...