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...wonder if colonization might somehow be magical. After all, Miles Davis is the direct descendant of slaves and slave owners. Hank Williams is the direct descendant of poor whites and poorer Indians. In 1876 Emily Dickinson was writing her poems in an Amherst attic while Crazy Horse was killing Custer on the banks of the Little Big Horn. I remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy...
...Small Time Crooks, though, is still on HAMID KARZAI Afghanistan interim PM wins presidency, thus becoming prime candidate for assassination. He says he'll pick a VP "who looks just like me" Losers REGIS PHILBIN ABC cancels U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Wiser but poorer, Regis vows to develop a spinoff, Who Wants Bus Money? ANTONIO OLIVEIRA Portugal football coach sees team eliminated by Korea in the World Cup. National pride now rests on being No. 1 in dessert wines AL GORE Stolen Lincoln bust shows up at ex-Veep'shome. That, and Al's insistence...
...What distinguishes a snuff film from a historical document? Showing crime-scene photos from a murder-rape adds nothing to the public discourse. The media chose not to print death photos of Princess Diana, and we were none the poorer. But there are exceptions. The Nazis? victims stacked in mounds, the Viet Cong executed with a gunshot to the head, the dead at Kent State and in Rwanda all had families and a human right to dignity. But their deaths had an unfortunate significance for the world; they were conscripted into history in a way that someone knifed...
Progress was made on both fronts this year as the central administration increased its financial support of aid programs at some of the poorer and more service-oriented graduate schools...
...quarter, doesn't pick up as strongly as economists expect and unemployment starts to rise. (Right now, it remains near historic lows at 3.2%.) Worried workers would cut back spending, and property prices could also fall as homebuyers became more cautious. Even those with secure jobs would suddenly feel poorer. "The debt would still be there, but the wealth would be eroded," says Jonathan Loynes of Capital Economics in London. The other risk is too much consumer-driven growth, which might get Bank of England Governor Edward George worried enough about inflation to push rates, and thus mortgage payments, back...