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TOKYO: It was good while it lasted, but it didn't last long. Wednesday saw the Japanese prime minister unveil plans for a $15.46 billion income-tax cut, which earned a stock market vote of confidence; Thursday, however, profit-taking sent Tokyo stocks back into the hole. The Nikkei 225 index fell 379.42 points, or 2.3 percent, to close at 16161.64. The previous day's party had the index jumping 3.5 percent...
...pessimist to the end, Malthus neglected human ingenuity ? crop rotation and refrigerated steamships got us out of the hole well before his starvation deadline. At least Hinrichsen's doomsaying is more cautious: Technological advances could feed an extra 2 billion mouths, he admits, but would require "decades of effort at the international, national and local levels...
...didn't play well in the first and second periods," Asano said. "We let them score. We dug a hole and had to come back in the third...
...denied that Clarkson is not the team it was nine months ago. The loss of Hobey Baker finalist Todd White tore an extensive hole in the Golden Knight attack, and early season losses to Yale and Princeton did little to impress the skeptics. On paper that put Harvard in perfect position to dispose of the home team and extend its series lead...
While it might seem appropriate for those who have not read the book to pigeon-hole it as the record of a cultural moment--a peek into the lives of artists with AIDS in '80s New York--Gurganus insists that the reader love the book for the humanness of its characters. "We have all been upstaged by the newsworthiness of our particular disaster," writes Gurganus/Hartley in one of the story's more pointed moments. In Plays Well With Others, however, Gurganus triumphs in crafting an emotionally and literarily memorable work...