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...faces two problems and they each compound the government deficit troubles. The IRS is collected much less than the current federal budget forecasts as individual and business taxpayers experience drops in their incomes. On the spending side of the ledger, the costs of stimulating the economy and bailing out businesses from car companies to GMAC rises each week...
...director of The Brave, a gorgeous, obscure Western in which he costarred with Marlon Brando, and which has been hard to find ever since. He's expected to return as part of the contingent promoting Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. This is the film Heath Ledger was shooting when he died in Jan. 2008; Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell graciously stepped in to assume different aspects of the Ledger role. Fans here will greet Depp as an honorary Frenchman; his spouse-equivalent, and the mother of his two children, is singer-actress Vanessa Paradis. (Read: "Sweeney...
...subject that has not been raised with the announcement of the new projection about the Social Security and Medicare funds is what government expenses might be eliminated to save benefits from the two programs decades from now. People would like to know why the income side of the ledger is at the center of the conversation and the issue of government expenses is neglected. The federal government admits that payments from Medicare and Social Security could disappear in the future, but immediately offers a solution that requires its citizens to increase payments into the system...
Brian Bolduc’s opinion essay, “The Boredomization of Politics,” paints an all-too-simple picture of an academic discipline that is much more complicated. On the credit side of the ledger, Bolduc is right that some of the more technical developments in political science have come at the expense of accessibility and even insight. What is not true is that we have to choose between quantitative and non-quantitative approaches to politics. Bolduc’s essay establishes a false binary—“These professors ditched The Federalist Papers...
...Lysistrata” sometimes bordered on absurdity, the humor created an original adaptation that highlighted the timeless feminist undertones of a classical play. Modernizing old classics to make them relatable again is a perilous venture, sometimes rewarding—like in the Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger film “Ten Things I Hate About You”—but often disastrous, such as in the Shakespeare-inspired Amanda Bynes flick “She’s the Man.” Although director James M. Leaf ’11 took great pains to keep...