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...course, this is the refrain of technology's cheerleaders. Jobs don't disappear. They just change. Nimble people with can-do spirit can always find a new one. And on average, the jobs pay better and better. Life gets easier and easier. Actually, I'm one of technology's cheerleaders. Forced to choose between hunting buffalo with a bow and arrow and microwaving a cheese-steak hoagie, I'll take the sandwich. On balance, progress does make things better, at least materially, for most people. But the costs are real. Converting someone from a teller to an ATM servicer...
...Labour now embraces capitalism, free markets and privatization. Most extraordinarily, in its effort to appear fiscally responsible, it has agreed to follow the Major government's spending commitments for two years and to refrain from raising income taxes. Once in power, Labour would thus be defined mostly by what it will not do: it will not increase taxes; it will not increase public spending; it will not renationalize companies privatized under Thatcher and Major; and it will not, Blair intones endlessly, restore union power. Thatcherism has been confirmed as the new Natural...
According to Robert H. Friedman, publisher of the Record, in a series of meetings beginning last Friday, Record executives assured Nesson and other HLS professors that today's Record would include an apology from Fenno. They also promised that the controversial columnist would refrain from personal attacks in the future...
...that is what comes of keeping grievances green, what does one make of the constantly returning memory of the Holocaust, of the refrain "Never forget! Never again!"? Specifically, what does one make now of the Jewish initiative to reopen the Swiss banks' World War II books in order to recover Jewish money deposited there, in the snug, smug, neutral Alps, as Hitler's apocalypse descended...
...Although he's just 26, Beck's voice has an old-soul weariness. His lyrics can be, at first listen, silly and playful, but they carry an underlying seriousness. His 1993 hit single, Loser, managed to be simultaneously humorous and a bit tragic with its self-deprecating, self-destructive refrain, "I'm a loser baby/ So why don't you kill...