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...this conceit, although there's good black comedy in it too--especially in the notion that it is the tragic flaw of hubris that eventually robs Sam and Nicky of their place in paradise. The former, apparently unaware of Bugsy Siegel's fate, aspires to celebrity-mobster status; the latter ratchets up his murder rate to crime-spree levels; both fatally attract the attention of the law and their own godfathers back home, who naturally prefer quieter business methods...
...MAJORITY OF AMERICANS, WHO haven't had a real raise in years, see their choice as between Newtonian trickle-down economics and Buchananist nativist-protectionism, they'll take the latter. The economy is growing, but almost nothing is trickling down. Even though Buchananism would stifle growth, some might find a larger slice of a smaller pie better than a shrinking slice of a growing pie. Is there a third option? Can we have our growing piece of pie and most of us eat it too? Yes. The basic problem is an oversupply of unskilled workers and a shortage of skilled...
...realize that people around you must be constantly reminding you to hold your tongue...There is a difference between meanness and simple candor...I don't want you to be so spooked about the former that you shy away from the latter. For one thing, people expect you to say what's on your mind. On your mind, not what some consultant or focus group tells you an audience or interest group expects to hear. You can buy applause lines at the expense of basic credibility. You can tarnish the qualities of honesty, trust and the Midwestern grit that have...
...high school quarterback in Las Vegas, Jay A. Snowden '98 was recruited by coaches from the University of Utah, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and Brigham Young University--the latter a quarterback factory that produced San Francisco 49ers signal-caller Steve Young...
These considerations include the use of University facilities. The laboratories should be used to further the research of professors, not corporations. We would like to assume that the former have societal interests in mind, while the latter, by their very nature, are primarily concerned with profit. Professors must be free to pursue any of their ideas, especially if those projects are removed from possibility of financial gain. But it is important to ensure that the interests of the professors remain uncorrupted by the interests of companies they found, on whose board they serve or whose stock they own. Full disclosure...