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...jarring exclamation, but one that is dead on. What is most disquieting about Evans’ “Trojan Barbie” is not the tattered, plastic body parts hanging over the set, but its intense focus on personal suffering rather than a macro-overview of a historical event.“Trojan Barbie”—which had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theatre on Saturday, March 28—follows Lotte, a British doll repair-woman, who goes on vacation in modern Troy. There, she stumbles into calamity, finding herself...
...within those macro areas, not every segment of the population was hit equally hard by gloom. The most anxious folks were between the ages of 18 and 24; the least anxious were the oldest: 65-plus. Native Americans were the most-stressed ethnic group; the least stressed were Asians and Pacific Islanders. Of all the drivers of FMD, unemployment and other economic woes are the most powerful - hence lower-income Native Americans and higher-income Asians wound up on opposite ends of the FMD scale. Similarly, while there is legitimate economic distress among seniors living on fixed or declining incomes...
...often the case with Obama, his macro message was buffeted by hard-nosed political tactics just beneath the surface. He made the rather remarkable claim, for instance, that his budget proposal was "inseparable from this recovery," apparently tying his own long-range policy goals on education, energy and health care to the end of the current recession. He also took some jabs at his Republican critics, who have mostly been marginalized in recent weeks by a lack of substantive arguments. "The critics tend to criticize, but they don't offer an alternative budget," he said, sounding exasperated...
When will good news start to appear? We will start to see some good news on the macro level by the end of the year. The stock market will anticipate that well in advance, and by mid-summer the market will be doing better. It's kind of a confusing period where the fundamentals, such as employment, are getting worse. And yet we're still far away from the positive effects of the American Recovery & Reinvestment program [i.e., the government stimulus], so the market is apprehensive about discounting those expected positive developments too early. But I do think...
...plan—which will aim to close the projected $100 to $130 million budgetary shortfall—is an early attempt to begin turning localized feedback from individual units within FAS into a more generalized scheme for cutbacks. “It’s a much more macro thing, as opposed to what’s happening today,” Smith said. “It needs to be guided by what we’re trying to do over the longer term.” Smith wrote in a letter to FAS faculty and staff that...