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Most great comics are to some extent manic-depressive, but Spike was an extreme case, swinging between certifiable despair and a spate of creativity that threatened to sweep him away. He once said he would sacrifice everything for mental peace. Had he done so we would have been the poorer...
...None of which means we shouldn't mourn losing "Nightline." But it does mean you should beware of journalistic sages peddling golden ages. If "Nightline" is canceled, we'll be poorer for it, but we will survive...
...okay?” one of the DJs asked me, looking at me as though he feared I might drop dead from a stroke at any minute. Sure. Great. Just $1 million poorer and soon to be among the ranks of the directionless and unemployed. I vowed never to go to breakfast again...
...nothing, that's what we'll do. And that will only make things worse." Like the individuals who draw on their savings accounts to pay the rent and buy food, Japan is tossing money at propping up rotten banks and failing companies, building highways to nowhere and becoming poorer by the day. "If the situation continues for another five or 10 years," predicts Sakakibara, "then Japan will drop out of the group of developed countries." Japan now faces its toughest manufacturing challenge in decades: it must manufacture a future...
Hungary continues to insist the effort is benign. Kinga Gal, a senior official helping to oversee the program, says Budapest's main concern is illegal immigration from poorer neighbors once Hungary joins the E.U., as is expected by 2004. Providing a leg-up to ethnic Hungarians in countries outside an expanded E.U., she says, might dissuade them from rushing the border in years ahead. But analysts point out that Hungary may also be using the law as a way of importing cheap labor to make up for a shortage of skilled workers...