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...Bush obviously figures the best immunization against a spring contraction is to give plenty of reminders that it'll be a problem he inherited from Clinton. And a little gloom and doom is the best sales pitch in years for big across-the-board tax cuts, which haven't been popular since Ross Perot made fiscal responsibility cool again. So Bush has little reason for public optimism...
...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...
...inflation is so last year. Clinton and Gore, Rubin and Summers, are all leaving. Tech's impregnability is a fading memory. Consumer spending kept us going when the rest of the world was tumbling, and now wallets are closing across the country. President-elect George W. Bush finds that gloom and doom suits him when he's itching for a tax cut, and now the pressure's on Greenspan to get us back on track by spring. If this thing turns into a recession, and he's judged to have been prideful and ignored the warnings when the New Economy...
...tempting to bash Marilyn Manson and his band solely for their dated Goth-posing and irritating theatrics. And while these qualities are as conspicuous as ever in Holy Wood (the final stage of the Antichrist Superstar/Mechanical Animals triptych), the quality of the music mostly compensates for its unabashed gloom. Despite its tired references to death, hell and maggots, "In the Shadow of the Valley of Death" is a haunting and effective acoustic number, and dirge-like opener "Godeatgod" shows surprising restraint. It's obvious that great care was taken in constructing the songs on Holy Wood; guitars chugging over suggestive...
...envelope. Then I hunt for a stamp with the proper first-class postage. (Jeez! Hard to believe that dog-eared 29[cents] stamp hasn't been good for nine years.) And then, like everyone else, I wait for the U.S. Postal Service to brave snow, rain, heat and gloom of night to deliver my letter--days later...