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Plain language. What Bush doesn't say anymore is that the sputtering economy and his tax cut have almost nothing to do with each other. Even if the cut is retroactive, only a tiny percentage - maybe $6 billion of the $1.6 trillion in tax relief - will find its way into...
As the new figures from the 2000 census trickle out of Washington and government demographers exclaim over "shifting populations" and "expanding pockets of diversity," some activists and sociologists are protesting - not just the numbers themselves, but the very methodology and purpose of the decennial survey.
There is a lack of sophistication in pockets of America, an assumption that these numbers are produced by objective scientists. This is intimidating. For some reason, Americans assume census data is not political - but it is. Every census is mandated by Congress, and is taken for political purposes like redistricting...
The NASDAQ has of late been the economy's best leading indicator - the crash of spring 2000 begets the economic slowdown of fall 2000, for example - and the tech "wealth effect" has also become the main engine by which Alan Greenspan gets rate-cut money into people's pockets before...
Cop to Denham, standing by Kong's corpse on 34th Street: "Well Denham, the airplanes got him." "Ah no," says Denham, hands in pockets, "it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." Fade up "Kong" theme; The End.