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...wasn't a crisis of government finances, as some pessimists had feared, but one of mortgages and Wall Street. As Washington battled the troubles, the deficit grew to an estimated $1.6 trillion in the fiscal year that ends this month. That's by far the biggest shortfall ever, in dollar terms. The government will have spent $3.7 trillion and taken in $2.1 trillion. Even by the more forgiving yardstick of percentage of gross domestic product, the shortfall is, at 11.2%, the biggest since World War II. It will be smaller next year but still huge by historical standards. At some...
...compared with the kind of cash he gets to play with at work. The economic-stimulus bill passed by Congress in February included $100 billion in new education spending. Of that total, Duncan has $5 billion in discretionary funding. That money alone makes him the most powerful Education Secretary ever. "I had very little--in the single-digit millions," says Margaret Spellings, Duncan's predecessor. "That's millions, with...
Will there ever be another Ken Jennings? Gerardo Valero, MEXICO CITY...
...Have you ever not known the answer to a very simple Jeopardy! question? Kasia Keen ANSBACH, GERMANY...
That's a tough one. Ken Jennings wound up winning 74 times. I'm not sure we're going to see that kind of success ever again. He was with us for 4½ months. My gosh, I was spending more time with Ken Jennings than I was with my wife...