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...Four wasted years" --"Moral vacuum" --"Rampant favoritism" --"Diploma mill" --"Hopelessly ill equipped" --"Spoiled brats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commencement-Speaker Order Form | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...need only consult the historical record. Between 1961 and 1968, following the Kennedy tax cut, the economy grew by 42 percent and tax revenue rose by a third. The Reagan tax-cut, so fashionably maligned, brought a similar boom. The deficits of the 1980s resulted from spending run rampant, not from the tax cut itself: between 1981 and 1989, revenue from personal income taxes actually grew by 28 percent. Nor can Bush’s cut be blamed for this year’s projected deficit. Recession and the Sept. 11 attacks account for over 86 percent of the predicted...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: Tom's Tax Tall Tale | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...sitting on its hands and waiting for businesses and consumers to get themselves back on track. And there's a certain reassurance to see the Fed in its present bind, unable to cut and unwilling to raise - at least everybody can agree that when it comes to monetary policy, rampant inflation is the only thing left to worry about. That, however won't make it any easier for Greenspan to sit home with his hands tied while his beloved New Economy tries to get back on its feet without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fed In Neutral | 5/7/2002 | See Source »

Taking the form of traditional comic operetta, Patience parodies the Wildean Aestheticism rampant in late 19th century England. As the production notes indicate, there is an emphasis on “fads, fashion and faux-intellectualism...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Rewards of 'Patience' | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

...Baldwins are proud to display the rampant eclecticism that is widely accepted as the hallmark of talent. They wind between genres with sinuous ease, never entirely shedding the lithe upright bass lines and high-hat/scratch duels that are their signature sound. “The Bionic Jam” verges on techno, with its driving samples and “Better, faster, stronger/ We have the technology” sloganeering. The Baldwins then swerve into the appropriately kitschily titled “Lava lamp,” which playfully flirts with the sound of elevator muzak in its psychedelic...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Writers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

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