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Scary but true: PARIS HILTON has become somebody's role model--her mother's. Not to be outdone by her rich and famous daughter, hotel empress KATHY HILTON is starring in a reality show of her own. The Good Life, scheduled to air on NBC, will follow Hilton mere as she teaches 10 young women how to fit into high society. The winner gets clothes, jewelry and a year's stay at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. The Donald's ex-wife IVANA TRUMP, right, hints that she's about to launch a reality program...
...money supply; the Federal Reserve does. Presidents cannot dictate their own budgets (as Prime Ministers can in parliamentary systems like Britain's); here, Congress has the ultimate say. Even worse, more than half the federal budget goes to entitlements and "transfer payments" like Social Security, where government is merely a conveyor belt transferring money from younger workers to older folks. What is left, "discretionary" spending, is a mere 8% of the $11 trillion economy Presidents are reputed to control...
...Moreover, this fact necessarily makes for a different mental attitude on the part of the undergraduates. Their competition is far less strenuous. I do not mean that the play is less vigorous. But it tends to make the mere winning or losing of less relative importance. It is as though your best friend beats you in a game; you simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only...
...remove the gender designation from 24 single-occupancy bathrooms would not, at first glance, seem to constitute a pressing item on any political agenda. If only the BGLTSA moniker wasn’t attached to the proposal, it could be seen as a demand for most students’ mere convenience, not for transgendered persons’ civil rights. After all, when you’ve gotta go, you should be able to go, without the oppressive or “transphobic,” to use a choice word from BGLTSA leadership, host of gender-specific signs, heteronormative supers...
After Wal-Mart launched its Supercenter format in 1991, it took the company three years to reach $1 billion in annual U.S. grocery sales. But a mere decade later, it is topping $100 billion a year, which is almost as much as the sales of the next three biggest chains combined. "To a certain extent, Wal-Mart's strength is more of a reflection of the lack of difference among stores," says Willard Bishop, a supermarket consultant in Barrington, Ill. Conventional grocers are starting to get the message--differentiate or die--which is why some are jazzing...