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Bill O'Donnell, the associate director of communications at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, said the gifts to Harvard medical students are "modest contributions to medical education...
...time. To slam on the fiscal brakes in the midst of a recession, or a shaky recovery, or whatever the heck we're in, would be suicidal. Partisans of the other two candidates have grasped this argument as a defense of their considerably more modest deficit-reduction proposals...
Lately the market's spasms of insecurity have grown more profound. In a stampede of selling last Monday, the Dow dropped more than 100 points by noon, only to bounce back to a modest 22-point decline for the day. The Dow finished the week down 64 points, at 3136.58, a 240-point decline since mid-September. Many analysts attribute the pessimism to a host of misgivings, including uncertainties about the outcome of the presidential election. Most worrisome has been the prospect of an extremely sluggish economic recovery and the apparent decision by the Federal Reserve Board...
...would come from $132 billion in cuts he's already outlined. Three problems. First, Congress has already rejected these cuts. Second, the cuts include making Medicare recipients and veterans pay more for certain services. This is a truly bad idea when upper-income taxpayers are so clearly due a modest tax hike after years of Reagan-Bush. (And it exposes Bush as a liar since he's said time and again to veterans groups that he won't touch their benefits...
...wonder that, even now, most of humankind could still not believe that this modest asteroid was the instrument of doom. Or, as the Chrislamic Fundamentalists were calling it, "the Hammer...