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...their activism, the Clintons are apt to play a surprisingly modest role as national tastemakers. They are far more likely to reflect baby-boomer trends than to shape them. Sure, there are fearless forecasts from marketing gurus. "Elvis memorabilia is going to go up to a whole new level," predicts Brad Edmondson, the editor in chief of American Demographics. "Remember Ronald Reagan and jelly beans. Jimmy Carter and peanuts." He may be right; too bad Graceland (privately owned) is not traded on the stock exchange...
...protectionism are detrimental to the free-market system and thus decrease economic activity. However, the difficulties that Eastern European countries are having in creating a free market would indicate that it is a sort of perpetual motion machine. The question, even for the hundreds of "Future Economic Policy Gurus"--the Economics Department's name for future Marty Feldsteins--who swallow his supply-side gospel each week, is how to start...
Alas, there is no Salada Claus. The real gurus are a bunch of ordinary Joes like Salada employees and humor writers and occasionally even (Gasp)! advertising agencies...
Political gurus on both sides are advising candidates that activism in foreign policy is a political loser. But a great candidate does not follow the polls; he makes them follow him. The true mark of leadership is not simply to support what is popular but to make what is unpopular popular, if that serves our national interest...
After passing over Harvard for individual player awards last week (Harvard joined pitiful Union and Dartmouth as the only teams with no players on the first or second team All-ECAC squads),the ECAC gurus again denied the Crimson the respect it deserves by rejecting Ronn Tomassoni as Coach of the Year yesterday...