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Viruses spread faster than they used to. Our global financial system allowed America's subprime crisis to poison the world's economy. Another great symbol of globalization, jet travel, is capable of spreading a different type of infection - one that sickens not markets, but people...
...didn't have to come to this. He could have died in that motorcycle crash or been shot by a crazed fan or sky-walked out a 10th-story window during a bad trip. But Bob Dylan--the great American artist of the past 50 years, I believe--survived, which is perhaps the only prosaic thing he's done in his life. A half-decade older than the oldest baby boomers, 68 on May 24, he has predicted their maturation--marriage, divorce, finding and losing religion, midlife crisis and regeneration, a second wind, a third...
Though nothing in particular stood out at the Cabot/Pfoho formal, guests dolled up in above-the-knee dresses and well-cut tuxes left the great white tent on Moors Terrace slightly tipsy and reasonably satisfied. The food and drink selection were mediocre, the décor lovely but not especially memorable, and the music—let's just say DJ Strauss made for easy (and impassioned) conversation come Tuesday morning...
...Actual Retail Price: Any Ec major will tell you, workers involuntarily doing part-time hours is just as bad as unemployment. It's also a great way to save money without the public stigma of firing people. Oh yeah, we're not offering new jobs. Sorry, SLAM...
...coach massaged pro egos better than Daly, who won 638 games over 13 NBA seasons. Just look at Daly's Bad Boys, the thuggish band of Detroit Pistons who elbowed, kicked, brawled, their way to back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 1990. Great teams often take the character of their head coach but, in Detroit's case, the polar opposite was true. Within basketball, no one disparaged Daly. He was a blue-collar Pennsylvania guy who just worked his way up the coaching tree, from Punxsutawney (Pa.) High School, to Penn, where he won four straight Ivy League...