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Professional economists are puzzled: more and more their numbers don't seem to add up. Wages for the typical worker have fallen behind price increases ever since the early 1970s, and the trend has continued during the Clinton years. Yet in every way that can be measured, from ownership of color-TV sets to the numbers of people vacationing in Europe, Americans are living much better than two decades ago. True, the prosperity is far from equally shared. But that raises another question: What kind of economy is it in which the numbers of both the highest-earning and lowest...
...than men's. They now average 70% of male earnings, vs. 60% in 1970. The poverty rate finally went down by half a percentage point in 1994, to 14.5% of the population, the first decline since before the 1990-91 recession. But real wages of the median worker have fallen 4.6% since 1979--and more than half that drop, or 2.5%, has come after Clinton's Inauguration...
...trademark glasses, he once told his mostly female audience, "I just wear them to look like a gynecologist!"--as if he were an expert on the subject, and as if women would find such an impersonation appealing. Apparently they did. Nevertheless, Donahue's brand of me-too feminism has fallen out of favor, though he will leave behind an important legacy in Washington. Not only did Bill Clinton use Donahue's show to reach voters in 1992; with his "I feel your pain" persona, he has even lifted Donahue's shtick. And now, thanks to the tabloids, we can finally...
...spring 1994, she had fallen ill again. That summer the family took a cross-country camping trip expressly with the goal of building happy memories for the children. A friend arranged a behind-the-scenes tour of the White House, and the kids got to play with Socks, the Clintons' cat. Christy deMeurers spent one more Christmas with her family. She died on Friday afternoon, March...
...those who search for precedent, Harvard has been very clear and consistent in its evaluation of this troubled period in our national past. It was Harvard President Edward Everett who, along with President Lincoln, eulogized the fallen Union soldiers at Gettysburg. Memorial Hall was built not simply to commemorate the Northern dead but to honor all those who fought for the cause of the Union. Indeed, in his welcome to the returning Harvard men who fought for the Union, Professor James Russell Lowell declared...