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...mathematical logic underpinning the plan is already stirring controversy. Hubbard and Friedman are making a huge and controversial macroeconomic bet that deficits don't matter, effectively reversing a decade of policymaking. "This Administration is trying to change the whole intellectual basis for fiscal policy that Alan Greenspan enforced when deficits were large in the early 1990s," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com a research firm. "We got fiscal discipline through the idea that deficits matter. That's been flipped on its head...
...both IBM and others) to make it happen. In some cases IBM will provide the entire system--with the hardware often located far from the customer--as a utility that corporations can buy "just like they buy electricity," as Palmisano has said. Instead of having to make a costly bet on an army of new servers and software, companies like American Express can ramp their computing power up or down as market conditions dictate. "There's a lot less risk for the customer if they can work their way up and see the benefits as they go," says Bob Zapfel...
...past two weeks, we'll bet 150 people have wished you happy New Year. And at the supermarket or dry cleaner, someone wanted you to "have a nice day." The Democrats used to chorus, "Happy days are here again." The noted self-help guru Bobby McFerrin counseled, "Don't worry, be happy." Other pop singers tell us that happiness is "a thing called Joe" (Judy Garland), "what my life's about" (Vanessa Williams), "when you feel really good with somebody" (Al Green), "a warm gun" (John Lennon), "an option" (Pet Shop Boys). The old saloon singer Ted Lewis used...
...alas, that the minute you stop dieting--and who can deprive themselves forever?--you'll find it practically impossible to keep the weight off. But that's no reason to give up and consume a box of Krispy Kremes. If you're serious about shedding pounds, your best bet is to forget about dieting and make some permanent changes--the kind you can live with for the rest of your life--in your eating habits...
...military. A week later, the newspaper of Israel's Islamic Movement was banned. Two weeks ago, the party hacks who sit on the Central Elections Committee voted to ban two top Israeli Arab politicians from running in the election on the basis of evidence submitted by the Shin Bet security service, which accused them of calling for violent attacks on the Israelis. At the same time, they approved the candidacy of the former leader of Kach, the banned anti-Arab movement founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. Israel's Supreme Court overruled the ban on the two Arab politicians...