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Well, technically, I did. My budget is self-imposed, after all. But like my newly carless friend, I feel strongly about the imposition. Everywhere I look, I am reminded of the bad economy. I was in the grocery store the other day (no longer Gourmet Garage), and there was an old woman working behind the counter. She must have been 75 - her hands were shaky. She shouldn't have to have a job. Will that - or a version of that - be me? Right now, I've got money for a new subway pass, it's true...
...considered bad form to blame people for a catastrophe after it happens, unless someone involved has committed a felony. In the case of newspapers, how the house caved in is worth a hard look. It says a great deal about how industries that do not have to fail, fall apart anyway. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Michael Rawlins' office in London is a cartoon of a group of men in suits cowering below a giant circular pill inscribed with the word pharma. Amid the supplicants strides an impervious figure from Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) with a puzzled look on his face. Like the man in the cartoon, NICE head Rawlins doesn't see why drug companies should deserve any deference. His organization uses hard-nosed cost-effectiveness reviews to decide which treatments Britain's National Health Service (NHS) should pay for. A new drug doesn't just have to work...
...look at the record, and this is not where we want to be,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh said. “But the beauty of baseball is things can turn around real quickly...
There are definitely dangers to media blitzes, as Obama's TV week proved. Too many just-for-fun bits, like his ESPN bracket pick, could make him look as if he has his eye on the wrong ball. (Which may be why he said he didn't stay up to watch a six-overtime game because "I've got work to do.") Every time he forces himself to say, "I'm as angry as anybody about those bonuses," it sounds clearer that he's not as angry as anybody. And he may actually do better in tough Q&As, like...