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...That may sound like what your mother told you on the day you left home, but it's the advice that FORTUNE 500 executives pay big bucks to get from LGE Performance Systems in Orlando, Fla. Now the regimen, originally developed for world-class athletes like Pete Sampras and Dan Jansen, is available for $26, the price of The Power of Full Engagement, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz (Free Press). The authors argue that energy, not time, is our most precious resource. We should therefore forsake our national workaholism and take better care of ourselves. That way we will...
...THOTTAM asked a group of tax-policy experts to move beyond the current debate and imagine a simpler, more efficient federal tax system. Our Board of Economists--David Bradford of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and New York University School of Law, Philip Jefferson of Swarthmore College, Dan Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation, Trudi Renwick of the Fiscal Policy Institute and Max Sawicky of the Economic Policy Institute--produced a host of creative ideas and some surprising moments of consensus...
...DAN MITCHELL: There are two big issues. No. 1, should you have what is called a consumption base? A consumption base is what you find in the flat tax. It is implicit in the national-sales-tax proposals. The second big issue is, do you then have one rate? Then it is a question of how to design it. I would want it to have a low rate, I would want government to be smaller, and I think bringing in less revenue is the only effective means of controlling the size of government...
LAWLESS HEART. Friends and family converge on a small town in northern England for a funeral in Lawless Heart. Stuart, the deceased, was a young gay man who leaves behind a healthy bank account and successful restaurant when he drowns off the Isle of Man. Nick, his partner, and Dan, his brother-in-law, immediately begin competing over the restaurant. Both are sidetracked by unexpected relationships: Nick with his first woman, and Dan with an inappropriately frisky female guest at Stuart’s funeral. The film’s structure is initially somewhat confusing-it revisits the funeral...
Rhode Island leadoff hitter Dan Hayden was a sparkplug for the Rams, opening the game by drawing a walk off of Harvard senior hurler Brendan Reed. Hayden promptly stole second and two batters later took off for third. The throw from senior catcher Brian Lentz seemed to be in time, but it bounced off freshman Josh Klimkiewicz’s glove into left field. Hayden came around to score an unearned...