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...policy as "my way to change the world." As a journalist covering California's 1978 tax revolt, however, he began to question liberal orthodoxy. "It seemed to me that I was watching a watershed event -- the end of the era of ever growing government spending that had begun with Franklin Roosevelt," he recalls. "I felt that progressives needed to take the lead in reforming taxes and making government more responsive...
Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin called the figures "a good present for us to leave to the new Administration." And there really were indications that the economic upturn George Bush had so often promised had finally begun -- just in time for Bill Clinton to reap the political benefit. Gross domestic product leaped up at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter, returning total output of goods and services to the pre-recession pace of mid-1990. Strong increases were registered by consumer spending, business investment, orders for durable goods, sales of existing houses and consumer confidence, while...
...Franklin D. Raines '71, who is the vice chair of the Federal National Mortgage Association and a former lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, will head the "cluster" examining potential appointments in the areas of economics and international trade...
Lechery is an expectedly prominent theme of this biography of perhaps the randiest American hero since Benjamin Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic...
...1960s and '70s, the soul sounds of Detroit and Philadelphia were the glory of American pop. From the funk styles of James Brown to the fervid testifying of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, soul music was something you could not only hear but also feel: rhythm without blues, emotion without sentimentality. Then in the '80s a few big record companies discovered they could rack up sales by substituting hyperactive beats and overdressed arrangements for soul's honest impact. Subtle vocal stylists gave way to crooners; soul gave way to dance music, marketed mainly to black listeners. Even powerful singers like...