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...Time Machine works because it doesn't just take delight in lampooning the deserving '80s, it reminds us that our iPhone-carrying, Red Bull-swilling, video game-playing culture will soon enough make a fine target as well. The times are always changing. Walking into their ski lodge circa 1986 - just as the guys are beginning to realize that they have time-traveled, clued in by indoor cigarette smoking, a "Where's the Beef" T-shirt and Ronald Reagan live on TV - Nick grabs a woman and demands, "What color is Michael Jackson?" Her well, duh response - "Black!" - sends...
...Whatever happens, Richards says he and his fellow producers have no plans to use creative accounting to make their production profitable. "Like all plays, we have an accountant, and it is not Arthur Andersen," says Richards...
...also doesn't make developmental sense, says Dr. Jean Mercer, professor emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, who specializes in infant development. "Babies don't form attachments solely to their mothers - they become attached also to fathers, grandparents, nannies, child-care providers, older brothers and sisters, or anyone else who interacts with them socially and frequently participates in care routines like feeding and bathing." These relationships are healthy and part of normal development. And becoming attached to a nanny doesn't equal becoming detached from a mother, or that the two are interchangeable. "A nanny...
...nearly that simple or consistent. Consider The Theory of Moral Sentiments, his long-neglected other masterpiece, published 17 years before The Wealth of Nations, in 1759. I recently cracked open a new 250th-anniversary edition, complete with a lucid introduction by economist Amartya Sen, in hopes that it would make clearer how we ought to organize our economy. (See a special report on important economists...
...point here isn't that Smith was right in every last one of his prescriptions and proscriptions. He was an 18th century Scottish scholar, not an all-knowing being. Many of his apparent self-contradictions are just that - contradictions that don't make a lot of sense. (See the best business deals...