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Bigness was, of course, an attraction of the actual ship. In the film, the ship company's boss says, "I wanted to convey sheer size." Cameron could be his spiritual heir. The man who made The Terminator for $6 million has become the high priest of Hollywood bloat. He is also the movies' mad toymaster: he keeps falling in love with an imposing machine (a cyborg, an alien, a submarine, a Harrier jet, an ocean liner) that he then spends great amounts of time and energy destroying...
...water, bodies piled and rotting in the un-air-conditioned morgue, potholes that could kill if the stray bullets don't--these are familiar stories to District dwellers. A recent expose in the Washington Post offered jaw-dropping statistics on the amount of wasted funds and government bloat. Washington spends more money and has more employees than any other city. Yet the high school dropout rate has passed 50%, crime is up 16% since 1991, and tuberculosis and infant-mortality rates are the highest in the nation. Just last week officials announced that the city's public schools would open...
While it may not seem very difficult to take a foursquare American icon like Elvis and make money off of him, in fact the reverse has been true, and therein lies an illuminating tale. Unlike the story of Elvis' rise from poverty to fame and bloat, which will certainly be told and told again in the coming weeks, the story of what happened after his death is both more unfamiliar and nearly as compelling, at least from a fiduciary point of view. Its unlikely heroine turns out to be none other than Elvis' "child bride," Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, who divorced...
Provost Albert Carnesale says the recent report by Harvard's largest union--which claims a $25 million administrative bloat--is misleading...
...provost also said the Union should not consider personnel increases in information technology, regulation compliance and fundraising as administrative bloat...