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...these allusions to warfare were invoked not for physically treacherous circumstances, but, to many, events no less catastrophic. Capping off one of the most miserable weeks in financial history, the Dow and the Nasdaq fell sharply on Friday. The former lost five percent and the latter 10 percent of their respective values...
...divide between the old and new guards in Miami is that many if not most of the latter were born in the U.S. While their parents still dream of Havana, the kids are far more concerned with using their computer and business skills to turn Miami into "Silicon Beach." That indigenous culture has been dubbed Generation n, after a Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That...
Larry Tannahill falls into the latter category. According to a profile in Monday's New York Times, Tannahill, whose 12-year-old son, Brady, attends the local middle school, filed suit against the Lockney, Texas, school district for violating his and his son's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches. School officials aren't looking for guns or knives on Brady: Like every student in Lockney's public middle and high schools, Brady is required to undergo periodic drug tests. Refusal to take the test provokes the same punishment as a positive test result: An in-school three-day suspension...
...antithesis of all the energetic, lighthearted singing going on around him, and his performance is outstanding. Other noteworthy performances include Neil Davidson '03 as Sir Despard Murgatroyd, Robin's younger brother, and the five men who make up the Chorus of Gentry and the Chorus of dead Baronets, the latter appearing with some unexpected special effects in the second...
...latter point is amplified by Third World advocates (and even the World Bank after the Asian bailouts), who point out that the harsh austerity package that typically accompanies an IMF loan or bailout cuts government social spending and therefore transfers the burden of inept decision-making by governments and investors onto the backs of society's poorest and most vulnerable members...