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...cost of capital may have been East Asia's undoing. Cheap money can make people do silly things. In the 1980s it led them to pay ridiculous prices for stocks and real estate, and the fever spread from Tokyo to Bangkok. But even after the Japanese bubble burst, the experts on the Asian model justified similar excesses around the region because we were on the cusp of the Asian Century, one of limitless growth. The vaunted technocrats thought--or perhaps hoped--that they could once more invoke the Asian model to wipe away the looming mess. Only recently have most...
...just had a stomach flu, and all I wanted was an excuse to get out of my final because I had a 102 [degree] fever and kept throwing up," she says. "It was just one of those 48-hour bugs that come and go. I would have recovered just as quickly without...
...people come on drugs to Harvard," Rosenthal says. "They have a fever, they have antibiotics. They develop resistance to antibiotics...
...cold comfort in cold cash. Which is why a sardonic God invented negligence lawyers. Russell Banks, author of the novel from which Atom Egoyan derived The Sweet Hereafter, has, however, improved on His handiwork, creating in Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who chases settlements with a chills-and-fever passion that can be explained not by greed but by the suppurating wounds life has inflicted on him. The man, whom Holm plays with superbly controlled fanaticism, wants compensation from an unfair universe but finds momentary relief in squeezing more readily available targets...
...commissioner. It took to referring to taxpayers as customers. It has even managed to serve up what may be the government's best Website--the Digital Daily--which touts Problem Solving Day as "a new way to work with taxpayers to provide effective relief from the headache, fever, and that all-over achy feeling that accompanies long-standing tax problems...