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...current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. 'I AM NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE ADVANTAGE IS IN HAVING A FEW MORE DOLLARS TO SPEND,' HE SAID, 'IF THE AIR IS TOO DIRTY...
...threat to his crime-and-vice monopoly. "Bloodletting on my premises-- that I ain't approved--I take as a f__ing affront," he says. HBO seems ready, foolishly, to let Season 3 be the western's last. It's worth hopping on this poetic, profane story of frontier money lust before it rides into the sunset...
President Bush's plan to bolster security on the U.S.-Mexican border has the aura of a renewed White House about it. The possible use of military resources--including deployment of National Guard troops and aerial drones to patrol the frontier--emerged as Bush aides brainstormed about how to spend border-security funds recently approved by the Senate. Some Governors questioned adding another burden to forces already strained by deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, but the idea delighted conservatives, who see it as the kind of strong move needed to secure the porous border...
...frontier is to accommodate the ambitions of the group we have encouraged thus far. And institutions should do so not only in the interests of these women, but also in their own interest—to reverse the “brain drain” of highly qualified women who are pushed off their career tracks by inflexible corporations...
...away the politics, the largesse and the stagey rhetoric, the Howard-Costello paradigm does not resemble a long-term program to make today's students tomorrow's high-productivity workers. It's the skills, stupid! The 2006-07 Budget does not sing a melody that Australia is at the frontier of innovation, or even that it is on the road to becoming a Big Country in the world marketplace. Same old, same old song. Whatever, never mind. Just like the government, today we're all living large...