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...lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy for the peasants caught between the battling political factions, and a gnawing desire to document the pitfalls of America's misguided efforts to prop up the regime of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek...
...next piece, “Boundaries,” uses a single prop to skillfully illustrate its title subject in a superb mesh of graceful choreography and music (“Silence” by Delerium). The choreography is perhaps the best of the show, technically speaking; it retains the characteristic fluidity of Me in a Box despite its complexity. The dancers’ motions revolve around a gauzy red cloth that serves as a tangible boundary between the figures. Its presence sometimes separates one from the rest, but then brings the group together, stretching the “boundary?...
...debt—caused not only by the (Texas power company-induced) energy crisis, and the collapse of capital gains revenue from Silicon Valley, but also by costly voter initiatives, promoted by selfish special-interests, that mandated an uncontrollable spending explosion. By law, no California governor can touch the Prop 98-guaranteed 40 percent of the budget directed to an ineffective—and ever-growing—education bureaucracy, and the teachers’ unions it benefits. And, by law, no governor can raise revenue by modernizing the Prop 13-mandated property tax unfairness that leaves Warren Buffett paying...
Arnold’s Prop 57 was sold as a means of refinancing debt at a time when interest rates were at historic lows. But here’s another idea: Why not avoid the additional $6 billion in interest and simply pay off the debt? Why not spare the next generation of Californians from sacrificing to solve a problem we played no role creating...
America should always be looking for ways to lower its trade barriers, not prop them up. The practice in question is nothing more than an anti-competitive and unproductive subsidy for a sagging industry. America’s steel industry, once a jewel in the West’s industrial crown, is now more like a low-grade glass tchotchke. It cannot compete with more efficient foreign producers, and it never will unless it is weaned of its habit of relying on Uncle Sam for help whenever profits are down...