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...Democrat Phil Bredesen, a self-made millionaire, won the seat telling voters they?d never hear a peep out of him about an income tax to balance the budget. But Bredesen quickly realized the one-cent sale tax hike wouldn?t be nearly enough to cover the budget shortfall. ?The problems were more severe than I thought they would be,? he says. So Bredesen, who?s refusing a salary, took a meat cleaver to the budget, slashing $400 million and 847 state jobs. State officials may even repossess library books - including Dr. Seuss - from rural schools that haven?t paid...
Like a lot of popular nonfiction, Heaven belongs to the school of the lurid glimpse, giving readers an anthropological peep at a genuine subculture. But Krakauer never succeeds in getting inside his villains' heads--they're just a pair of holy robots obeying the evil software of their deity--and his main theme, that "there is a dark side to religious devotion," isn't exactly breaking news in 2003. If nothing else, the book is a bracing reminder that Americans aren't special. We're as capable of breeding violent religious fanatics as anybody else. --By Lev Grossman
...never quite perfected the virtue. "There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride; disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself." This battle against pride would challenge him--and amuse him--for the rest of his life. "Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I would probably be proud of my humility...
...Peep Into Perry's Melting Pot No way could you assemble a list of Lee "Scratch" Perry's greatest hits - his chart successes have mostly carried other singers' names, while his dub albums are best swallowed whole. And there are plenty of failed experiments, indulgences and dodgy reissues that should be avoided. Each of the following selections, though, marks a turning point in Perry's musical career and mind - both of which have more twists than most Super Ape (1976) Arguably Perry's finest hour, this album carries dub over the line to a white prog-rock audience. Having earlier...
Schlosser concentrates his search on three areas: pot, migrant labor and pornography. (In case you're wondering whether combining porn and economics makes economics interesting or porn boring, it's the former.) He follows the money down some dark alleys: into peep shows and prisons, subterranean high-tech hydroponic pot farms and camouflaged, garbage-strewn encampments of illegal Mexican farmworkers. He introduces us to Reuben Sturman, a humble Cleveland comic-book salesman who became the founding father of America's $10 billion porn industry and who deserves a whole book of his own. We meet Mark Young, a good-natured...