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...Zurcher was right, I suppose. Fifteen-odd years after he graduated, the strange symmetry is still intact: Harvard College is entirely yours for your very first week here (Freshman Week), and then not again until your very last week (Commencement Week). Admittedly, the Jewish calendar dealt the Class of 2005 a bit of a bad hand, as the timing of Rosh Hashanah forced administrators to let all students move in at the same time as the first-years—but effectively the campus belongs to the frosh until Sept. 11, when returning students have to be on campus...
Easley isn't the only Governor feeling helpless. After a decade of good times, most state governments are being forced to either slash budgets, spend their savings or raise taxes. So far, 17 states have dealt with shortfalls...
...Governors have followed Easley's lead of proposing tax increases. State legislatures have cut taxes a total of $36 billion nationwide since 1995; most aren't ready to admit the party's over. Virginia Republican Governor Jim Gilmore, who criticized Easley's tax increase, dealt with his state's $420 million shortfall by cutting pay raises for state workers and freezing construction projects at state universities. The Virginia legislature tried to block Gilmore's repeal of a state car tax so such deep cuts wouldn't be needed, but Gilmore prevailed. Now a new budget gap may force...
...Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the barber of Santa Rosa, in Joel and Ethan Coen's tragicomic cardiograph The Man Who Wasn't There. He's got a cheating wife (Frances McDormand), a conniving friend (James Gandolfini), a dead-end job and the depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right." But the Coens do. They lay out their story in pearly, sepulchral black-and-white, infuse the dialogue with mordant wit and somehow blend those two postwar innovations, UFO mania and dry cleaning...
Hats off to TIME for the article about what has gone wrong with assisted-living centers [TIME IN DEPTH, Aug. 13]. I have dealt with one of the companies mentioned for more than two years. I strongly believe that assisted living needs to be regulated. I would like to see a paradigm shift in the way we think about our frail elderly. They should not be depicted as "just too sick or too needy." They have the right to live the remainder of their lives in a comfortable and dignified way. JUDITH A. KIERNAN Medford...