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...Republicans, tax cuts are becoming a kind of deadly virus, threatening to cripple any G.O.P. measure that they infect. Welfare reform--the passion of angry white males--should have been a slam-dunk issue for Republicans. But last week they somehow allowed tax cuts--the passion of their campaign contributors--to get in the way. The Personal Responsibility bill of 1995, approved by the House last week, would save at least $66 billion by the year 2001 by limiting eligibility for welfare to five years in a lifetime and requiring recipients to go back to work after two years...
...moved on to music videos, wants to make. It is put simply by a doctor who is a minor character in his film: "War is a virus," meaning that, in an era of ethnic and religious conflict, the disease can be carried everywhere by impassioned terrorists and can infect anyone-in this case the young priest, the isolated Anne (who works as a photo editor, coolly studying images of violence) or even the seemingly well-inoculated Aleksander, who has seen and recorded most of the horrors of our time yet remains physically unscathed...
Leeson certainly had the quickness to rise at Barings at a time when a "bite the ass of a bull-every day" attitude-as a British securities executive describes it-was beginning to infect the bank's stiff and cautious culture. In the early '90s, the London headquarters of Barings was struggling with the division that championed derivatives-financial instruments that use the public's massive bet on securities to create a parallel universe of side bets, some straightforward (like futures) and others arcane (like swaptions). Derivatives helped the Tokyo unit make huge amounts of money-the kind of money...
...Like many others, he understood the power of new molecular and cellular methods for dissecting viral functions," Varmus told the Harvard Gazette. "But unlike most others, he retained a deep appreciation for the fact that viruses infect whole organisms, not just cells in petri dishes, and that these infection cause human suffering and death...
...catch about "Good Times" is that the e-mail is supposed to infect your system immediately upon being read. Some versions of the rumor claim that once infected, your computer's hard drive will be corrupted...