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Genuinely unassuming, King George, ever since plans to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of his accession were announced (TIME, Dec. 3), has been warmly surprised and pleased to find that public demand for a regular royal and extravagant celebration has leapingly outrun, week after week, all planned supply...
...introduce the most radical legislation dished up in any Great Power outside the Soviet Union until President Roosevelt dished his New Deal. In England, while maintaining the Crown with all it implies, the income tax has been raised to confiscatory altitudes; the proletariat have come to accept and demand the Dole as a matter of right; and such amenities as the provision of the phenomenally cheap, brand-new houses for millions of the lower classes now engage crustiest Conservative Ministers as their chief concern...
...were a stock, it would command a high P/E. It has a predictable cash flow, great cost control, good management and an insane demand for its product. But as Bowlen points out, none of that is of any interest to Broncos fans. "They couldn't care less if I make a dollar or $10 million. All they care about is winning the Super Bowl." Maybe the NFL should print a warning label on its tickets: Customer satisfaction not guaranteed...
...Department of Homeland Security before he favored it--and he has been unwilling to do the head cracking necessary to ensure that his friend, Secretary Tom Ridge, has the authority to do his job. Bush was dragged into supporting intelligence reform by John Kerry's imprudent campaign demand that the 9/11 commission recommendations be enacted immediately--without any input from, or negotiation with, the entrenched panjandrums of the intelligence community. "You can't do intelligence reform without a clear vision and direct marching orders from the President," 9/11 commission member Bob Kerrey told me last week. "If you create...
Also, as more fans become stats junkies (some 14 million people currently play fantasy football), the demand for on-screen information will increase. "I'm not sure that anyone has figured out what interactive means," says Gary Hartley, Fox's senior vice president for graphic design. But rest assured: with so much money riding on TV football, producers will keep investing to make the game-watching experience cooler and cooler...