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State and city leaders like to brag that the surpluses are due to sound financial management. It is not idle boasting, but an even more important reason is the nation's economic recovery, which has raised the take from income and sales taxes. During the recession, most states and cities cut spending deeply, and generally they continued to hold back during the early days of the rebound. Last year revenues surged far ahead of spending, giving the states especially the pleasant problem of what to do with the money...
...event recedes, the impact of television diplomacy in the Middle East seems less something to brag on -or to worry about. In fact, the coverage demonstrated how neuter television journalists had to be in a situation where two foreign leaders were playing so adroitly to the American public on all three networks...
...linemen who block for him; after every touchdown, he hands the ball to a teammate for a triumphant spike. At the end of last season, he also handed each offensive lineman more tangible evidence of his gratitude: a gold watch. Declares Payton: "Maybe it's all right to brag if you're Billie Jean King or Muhammad Ali. But I'm in a team sport. It takes ten more guys, and I don't see why I should rip all the glory." Payton first attracted attention at Mississippi's all-black Jackson State, which became...
...Leary's hyperbole about the glorious things that happen to the brain cells when you take drugs and you think about this man that you will never see again because of the not-so-glorious things that drugs are doing to his cells and you think about acquaintances who brag at parties that they shoot smack every weekend. ("Like multiple orgasms," they say, "...you should try it," they say. But they're "not hooked...Oh no!" they say. They tell you they can control their lives so well, hanging in there, later baby, so together, oh yeah, they know they...
...This brag may need hedging because, over the long haul, other singers - Barbra Streisand, to name one, and perhaps Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross - may have sold more records than Linda. (Carole King sold 13 million of a single LP, Tapestry.) Nevertheless, Ronstadt is the only female performer to have four consecutive albums go platinum (she made over $3 million from record sales alone last year). "Female" is the important qualifier. Rock is the thumping heart of Linda's music, and the rock world is dominated by males. The biggest stars are male, and so are the back...