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...case, quarterback, wideout and linebacker were all making love to the cameras during last week’s football media day, playfully pitching a prop pigskin back and forth to each other as flashbulbs popped...
When the Federal Government set up the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) last fall to help prop up the ailing airlines with $10 billion in loan guarantees, many credit-strapped CEOs licked their chops in anticipation of yet another big, fat government handout. But this time, at least so far, Uncle Sam hasn't turned into Uncle Sugar. Trying to impose some much needed discipline on the free-spending flyers, the Stabilization Board has required stringent cost-cutting measures as a condition for its help--and hasn't been shy about turning down such requests, as it did with National...
...small vacant lot with eight other families. To her, free-market reforms mean that Brazil's World Cup-champion soccer team "gets free new cars, while we sit here on the street and get nothing." The Bush bailouts may buy time, but they may not be enough to prop up faith in the capitalist road to prosperity. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo and Matthew Cooper and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
Would Dick be pleased with these films? In 1980 he told an interviewer, "You would have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood." And for all the postmortem respect accorded Dick's work, no movie yet has been both fully faithful to his ideas and successful on its own terms. The two best--Blade Runner, with its "more human than human" androids, and Minority Report--use Dick as a launching pad for their own propulsive flights of fantasy...
Forgiving the debt is not a stroke of charity—justice requires it. Many of the loans to Africa were illegitimate to begin with, used by rich countries to prop up corrupt, repressive or dictatorial regimes. South Africa’s apartheid regime accumulated more than $18 billion in foreign debt in the 15 years before it fell. Today, a democratic South Africa is left to pay its tormentors’ IOUs. By canceling the debt, we would both help Africa fight an epidemic and undo the mercantilist policies of the 1970s and 1980s that ravaged Africa?...