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...ANYONE MISPLACED A Halloween mask with a pump that sprays red "blood?" A few months ago, it turned up in dorm crew's Weld basement office, a Yard-wide depot for items lost and found. After it spent a month unclaimed, though, dorm crew threw it out. This lost and found only keeps its loot for about a month before it's shipped off to the homeless. Apparently, the homeless didn't want the mask...
...Japan is likely to claw back to zero in 1999, on the way to real growth in 2000. "After being pessimistic about Japan for four or five years," says Courtis, who is based there, "I would give their economic management an A." The government is finally priming the pump in earnest: $550 billion to recapitalize banks, $250 billion to stimulate domestic demand, and "I'll bet you see another $250 billion this year...
Disregard previous orders. It's back to the future after Clinton this month sent Congress a military budget proposing to pump $6.6 billion into development of a national missile-defense shield by 2005. Forget that Democrats argued for years that such a system would never work. That was then. Now it's the newest item in their lengthening list of conservative takeovers. Defense hawks have been maddeningly one-upped by Clinton's adoption of a snazzy constellation of space-based sensors and ground-based missiles that would stand guard over all 50 states, poised to destroy a handful of incoming...
...just how do you spot a shady soothsayer? Pump her for lottery numbers and see if she gets them right? Not quite. According to the New York State penal code, a person is guilty of fortunetelling if he or she purports to be "able, by claimed or pretended use of occult powers, to answer questions or give advice on personal matters or to exorcise, influence or affect evil spirits or curses." Now, that would seem to apply to the horoscope in the back pages of, say, the New York Daily News. There is, however, an exception. Fortunetelling is legal...
...since Peninsula's fortune seems to be the result of a Great Depression in campus tensions, we'll engage in a little Keynesianism (anathema, we realize, as it is to Peninsula's spirit) and prime the pump of vituperation, with some social service attack poetry...