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USAGE The phrase was coined to mock the economic inequality that some say started with Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" theory. But this is, at best, an imprecise analogy, because money isn't flowing from poor people's pockets straight to the rich: the pie is getting bigger for everyone. From 2000 to 2005, pretax income for the bottom half grew 15.5%. The rich just got a larger cut of overall growth (a 19% gain for the richest 1%). Perhaps better, then, to call it the big-slice theory...
...writes his characters into a perpetual search for commiseration, for stability, and for an escape from the human shells around them that serve as a constant reminder of their own mortality. In his fitter form, Coupland would make short, humorous work of this as well, but he hesitates to mock what is clearly a personal issue for him. Hints at autobiographical despair culminate in the revelation that the only solace from a painful world is found on the glossy surface of mass-produced bond paper.The novel is framed as the journal entries and correspondences of forty-something Staples employee Roger...
That’s Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” of course; a mock-epic, 15-part poem that contains every major mythological story of antiquity. Ten of these stories have been adapted to the stage by playwright Mary Zimmerman and produced at Harvard by Allison B. Kline ’09, Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09, and Maria-Ilinca Radulian ’10. In the capable hands of visiting director Carmel O’Reilly, last Friday’s opening performance was sometimes spellbinding, sometimes frustrating, and sometimes both...
...only emboldened both countries by trying to inoculate itself against the Iranian threat with a missile shield that it resolutely tries to place on Russia's doorstep. Rice was made to wait 45 minutes at an Oct.12 meeting in Moscow, only to have Putin stride in and mock the missile shield. "We may decide someday to put missile-defense systems on the moon," he said, "but before we get to that, we may lose a chance for agreement because of you implementing your own plans." Rice was restrained in response, as she long has been in public responses...
...which ones make the cut, shedding the blossoms that are not receiving enough light or that otherwise don't seem viable. It is, for a tree, a sort of selective termination on a vast scale. "You've got 99% of the babies being thrown out by the parent," says Mock. "The tree just drops all the losers...