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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both corporate profits and tax rolls grow. Unfortunately, bidding wars have escalated to the degree that government often must beggar itself to get or keep business. Now, for a conservative, this too might not seem like such a undesirable consequence: business succeeds at shrinking government and thus strikes a blow for economic liberty...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: The Siren Call of Tax Abatements | 12/11/1993 | See Source »

...then blow out up down left right man woman this a way and a that a way with you me and your momma from P-Funk: The Brides of Funkenstein, Bernie Worrell, George Duke 'n' mo', but George and th'boys keep grooo-vin'. But that's it. Tired out 'n' dried up 'n' re-producing 'n' re-packaging 'n' re-gurgitating 'n' re-jecting this volume Dis on th'brothers. Bustin' out o' th'groove...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

Plagued by the rhetoric of campus feminists, Boyle is tired of hearing so much about "terminology and text," about how "modern woman" in all her glory of Choice, Choice, and More Choice can't "have it all." Boyle claims that for campus feminists striking a blow for sexual equality means rejecting the "traditional' feminine roles" of mother and homemaker for the sake of succeeding in the work place." To her, being a feminist demands assuming these roles in addition to a career...

Author: By Kelly M. Bowdren, | Title: With Friends Like These ... | 12/8/1993 | See Source »

...response to a letter written by Sartre and Cocteau and signed by a slew of intellectuals, issued Genet a pardon for a possible life sentence. The pardon represented an official endorsement by the French government, its reigning man of letters and its most famous philosopher; it was a terrible blow to Genet the outsider, one that kept him from writing seriously for another fifteen years. "Canonized, pardoned, consecrated, assimilated, Genet was no longer society's scourge. He had become its pet," White writes...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Thief, Hustler, National Treasure | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...Americans on the West Coast that politics can no longer afford to overlook them. Michael Woo, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for mayor of Los Angeles this year, demonstrated the fund-raising resources of prospering Asians by drumming up campaign contributions across the country. While Woo's defeat was a blow to morale, Asians can boast three members of Congress from California: U.S. Representatives Robert Matsui from Sacramento, Norman Mineta from San Jose and Jay Kim from Diamond Bar, east of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Success | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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