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...Asia and Latin America have cut their purchases of American goods and services. The result is a current account deficit--the measure of net dollars owed to other countries--of some $226 billion in 1998. Courtis says if the U.S. runs a current account deficit of 2.5% of GDP--lower than his 1999 estimate--for the next four years, "the U.S. net external debt in 2003 will be over $2 trillion, which is bigger than Germany...
...addition have weakened the office confided to his care. One notes certain parallels with the impeachment 131 years ago of Andrew Johnson. Each President was vulnerable: Johnson because of wretched public actions, Clinton because of wretched private ones. In each case the Senate, after due deliberation, refused to lower the bar to conviction--a bar raised high by the framers in order to confine impeachment to "great and dangerous offenses" and "attempts to subvert the Constitution." In each case the Senate thereby saved the constitutional separation of powers by declining to make impeachment so easy that, as James Madison...
Glasgow--overcast, tenement-filled and shot with a certain indulgence for natural light's gay vicissitudes (i.e., shades of gray and the occasional blinding sunburst)--stars as itself, showing off its social welfare services and those scrappy lower orders who compose both Joe's soccer team and, supplied with worse lines and hence less likable, the local hoodlums. Since Joe practices a strong allegiance to his "family," which includes Liam, and since former addict Liam and addict-at-large Liam's wife play fast and lose with debts to said hoodlums' boss, it's clear that too-willing-to-help...
Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem (lower left) bid farewell to senior tutor Henriette L. Power, who announced her resignation this week. Power told Dunster students in a letter this week that she would leave the house at the end of the semester. In an interview, she cited her family as a reason for the move...
...Lower levels [in the Math Department] are not taught for pleasure or fun, but as a function to get from point A to point B," she says. "I felt like everyone teaching the course and everyone taking it used it to get to the next math course or physics course or to fulfill the next requirement, not because math was fun or interesting...