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...Proposition 13 in 1978, which limited the increase in property taxes to 1% per year-California has passed a slew of myopic, half-witted ballot initiatives that have pretty much paralyzed the political process in Sacramento. "Every ballot measure has taken discretionary power away from the politicians," says Peter Schrag, author of Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future. "It has become hard for them to respond to crises and easy for them to escape responsibility, since the public writes much of the most significant legislation...
...outrage at the way Britain was "sleepwalking into war at the behest of the Administration in Washington." Unfortunately, the topical jokes soon give way to a long, obsessively detailed parody of Dr. Strangelove, with a mad general ordering a nuclear strike against the Arab world. Only Peter Sellers groupies need stick around...
...miss. Today's seers may favor predictive software over, say, bird entrails, but if they could really see into the future, they'd be so rich they wouldn't have to tell fortunes for a living. But here's a sure thing: the future's big business. Just ask Peter Schwartz. As chairman of the California-based Global Business Network, a "scenario planning" firm advising corporations and governments, it's Schwartz's job to know what's around the corner. Building on his experience as head of Royal Dutch/Shell's Group Planning unit in the 1980s, Schwartz, 56, charts inevitabilities...
SUMMER SCHOOL POPS BAND ANNUAL CONCERT. The theme of this year’s concert is “Peter, Sergei and the Wolf” and will feature the music of Sergei Prokofiev, Gustav Holst, Richard Rogers and Leroy Anderson. The band will perform with a guest soloist, the flautist Deborah Boldin. Saturday, August 2 at 7 p.m. Free. Hatch Memorial Shell, Esplanade, Boston...
...Information Industries (MII). Wu skirted these obstacles by convincing the MII that Little Smart wasn't technically a mobile phone, thus allowing China Telecom and China Netcom to offer the service at least in smaller cities. "Wu has always managed to stay this side of what was legal," says Peter Lovelock, a telecom consultant in Beijing. It was a gamble, but regulators haven't stifled Little Smart...