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...their Millennium March. In these final months of the Clinton administration the President has been scurrying to the left to shore up his legacy on liberal causes. There should be little doubt that the administration wants to be remembered for having done something to battle the plague of the latter half of the 20th century...
...latter. If I wanted to be an athlete, I would have attended a college where I could disregard all that is thought-provoking I if so chose...
...boys' toys. Feminists have long derided Barbie for her tiny waist and big bosom. The authors of The Adonis Complex see a similar problem for boys in the growth of G.I. Joe. The grunt of 1982 looks scrawny compared with G.I. Joe Extreme, introduced in the mid-'90s. The latter would have a 55-in. chest and 27-in. biceps if he were real, which simply can't be replicated in nature. Pope also points out a stunning little feature of the three-year-old video game Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown, developed by GT Interactive Software. When Duke gets tired...
...World Bank are not, as some have charged, merely two heads of a single conspiratorial hydra; the former is charged with preventing global financial crises, while the latter's mission is to eradicate poverty worldwide. There are, of course, legitimate grievances with the restructuring plans frequently imposed by the IMF, and the World Bank has funded a number of expensive development projects of questionable environmental or social value. Furthermore, the debt resulting from loans by both institutions only adds to the crushing debt burden on developing nations. In general, however, it is hard to disagree with the statement of Michael...
...through increased audits of low earners. What has resulted is a state of affairs in which those who make less that $25,000 are more likely to be audited than high earners, corporations and the self-employed--even though, according to a study by the General Accounting Office, the latter groups are more likely to cheat the system. What's more, university-run tax clinics indicate that the IRS has become increasingly negligent of its duties, often denying the EITC to taxpayers without thoroughly investigating the details of individual cases...