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...have the budget reports that say the U.S. will be running deficits through 2004. He'll have the analyses that insist it was Bush's tax cut, not Sept. 11 or defense spending, that did it. And he'll have the potent economic argument that the only sure way for Washington to kick off another ten-year expansion - like the one, ahem, that just ended under the new guy - is to put the budget back in balance and soothe the savage bond markets that run up long-term interest rates when the feds run up the debt. (The economic ideal...
...this freedom could be problematic. I wrote a column and, pulling rank, overruled my editor on several points. In the clear light of morning I was embarrassed to read the resulting hash. As editor of the magazine, though, my conclusion was not to edit more strictly but to insist on higher-quality writers...
...ways to shock and confuse the library checkers. More food—hot food. Tennis balls that rolled out all over the checker desk and floor. A diorama-like setup of a miniature living room, with small figurines sitting around a coffee table, reading miniature books, that I would insist the security guard check for due-dates because “they came from the library—the small books section...
...They're not real runaways, the girls insist, because they intend to go home sooner or later?and they have cell phones. "Our parents can reach us anytime," Yuko argues. "They know where we are, sort of." Amazingly, the police use the same measure to define a runaway?if your parents can contact you, you're not really missing. Which explains why the official numbers of Tokyo runaways?though up 15% over the past five years?remain relatively low. Of the 1.4 million minors in the metropolis, about 2,000 were taken into custody as runaways last year...
...commanders, Ustad Mohammed Atta (of Tajik descent) and Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq (a member of the Hazara tribe), set themselves up in palatial villas in the city center. General Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek, took over Kalai Jangi, an ancient mud-walled fortress to the southwest. In public, all three insist an alliance born of necessity is holding. They say they are cooperating in the primary task of emptying Mazar of armed men and establishing a joint security force under the authority of an all-inclusive council. "We were united, we are united and we will be united," says Mohaqiq. Moreover, Taliban...