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...Johnson's March 9 editorial on the virtues of capitalism was a hilarious but depressing example of what happens when gullible undergraduates apply the toys we are given in Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" (Ec 10) to the real world. What is taught in Ec 10 has the dubious virtue of being very, very simple. As Johnson went to such offensive lengths to point out, "(a)nyone who has learned to spell the word economics should understand this theory...
Things got so bad that two years ago the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found itself with two choices: place the housing authority under jurisdiction of a federal judge or find an outside institution free of HANO's own dubious 58-year history to run it. Federal officials decided to hand the housing authority over to Tulane University--a highly selective, overwhelmingly white, old-line Southern school situated in a picturesque neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. It seemed an unlikely choice: What could Tulane know about fixing a bureaucracy that was rotting away as much as the buildings...
...clandestine war began quietly: telephone calls from out-of-town lawyers who urged reporters to look at this old federal case or that sealed police report. Next came the mystery faxes, great piles of inky black clippings, detailing the dubious investigative habits of the men who work for Kenneth Starr. And then last week the doors came off the hinges, as longtime Washington sources speaking only in exchange for anonymity offered tips, telephone numbers and spicy quotes that promised, as one did, that "Ken Starr's office is completely imploding...
Well, as he was in the delicious Wag the Dog, the director is looking for a new venue in which to display the thing he loves best--rough, funny dialogue that reveals the morally equivocal motives of highly dubious dreamers. And for a few minutes at the beginning of Sphere, which is about the exploration of a spacecraft that has been discovered resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, you think he may be on to something...
...have been a calculated gamble he was making. "He's trying to lock in all the other witnesses and figure out all the other stuff they know," says a former prosecutor familiar with the case. "That way, he can question Monica. If you're a little bit dubious about the trustworthiness of your star witness, it's not a bad strategy to lock down everything she might not recall...