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...contributions has not. More consumers than ever now benefit from writers’ work through the expansion of cable as well as videocassette and DVD sales, foreign television success and the Internet. Though more Americans pay for their entertainment, American writers see little of the profit. The industries owe their writers fair compensation for the greater profits their work now creates...
...issue of slave reparations got quite a few of you mad. Among the rejoinders we can print is one from a Las Vegas reader who told us that "slavery was a grave crime, but people who aren't responsible for what happened owe nothing to people it didn't happen to. It's a fact, pure and simple, that no living African American has ever been the slave of a living white American!" "Even Southerners whose families owned slaves through the Civil War owe nobody a cent," insisted a man from Atlanta. "It's not their fault their ancestors were...
...done so on the back of a few phenomenally simple ideas, all of which owe allegiance to capitalism in its most raw and ancient form. Anyone can be a buyer and anyone can be a seller. Price is determined by the number of buyers and how much they're willing to pay. Haggling is not only mandatory, it's automated. Sales have a deadline; everything must go. And most importantly the quality of the bazaar increases exponentially with its size. There are rival online auction services - Yahoo! and Amazon.com again - but eBay still has the lion's share...
...Really, we owe the good fortune of massive publicity to the Harvard Corporation," said Benjamin L. McKean '02, a member of PSLM. "I think it's really amazing what we pulled off in two hours...
...just yet. "Many of you have talked about the need to pay down our national debt. I have listened, and I agree. My budget proposal pays down an unprecedented amount of public debt. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to act now, and I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years." Right. Good idea. Very prudent. Now the tax cut, right...