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...NASCAR wreck is--all wheels, fire and smoking rubble. His track record, after all, includes half a dozen spectacularly costly crashes. Among them: TV-Cable Week ($47 million), a TV-information service called Teletext ($30 million) and, most famous, the Full Service Network in Orlando, Fla. (in excess of $100 million). You don't screw up like that and survive if you're just a waxen flack. But Levin's legacy also includes a number of sharp, Net-speed pivots when his business has demanded them. He considered, for instance, selling Time Warner's stake in Turner Broadcasting just months...
CUTS BOTH WAYS Don't count on science to hand you a clear-cut answer about whether to circumcise your child. The conclusions of a major 10-year study are, well, equivocal. The risk of a baby suffering a complication--excess bleeding or, worse, permanent damage to the penis--is 1 in 500. The odds are certainly low enough to deem the procedure safe, but may still be too high for some parents. The benefits are also persuasive: for every complication that occurs, six circumcised newborns are expected to avoid urinary-tract infections. Confused? Talk it over with your doctor...
...despite its undeniable prestige, Harvard has come under fire from outside observers, who charge the College with an excess of large, impersonal lecture classes and inaccessible professors...
...take a chance, when you give up that much control [by drinking to excess], of doing one stupid thing that will follow you for the rest of your life," says Mike D. Geyer, also an extension student...
Wait, though. That's only the beginning. Estimates are that with no change in current policy Washington over the next 10 years will collect a mind-boggling $2.9 trillion more than it spends--$1.9 trillion in the Social Security trust fund, and $1 trillion as an excess of tax collections over spending for everything else the Feds do. The $1 trillion overage is the size of the entire federal budget in 1987 and, paradoxically, creates a problem for politicians that they have never faced before: How best to channel that torrent of cash...