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...that, I told the patient secretary at the Public Works Department, was why I had called. I wanted them to build a stairway into the hillside that would turn a questionable shortcut into a user-friendly thoroughfare, and I was wondering who had control over that sort of decision. She told me that all the bridges in the state were owned by the Massachusetts Highway Department, especially one on the Alewife Brook Parkway, which moonlights as State Route...
...When the IMF was in Latin America, they faced the typical hyperinflation problem and they knew what they were doing," notes Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw. "But in Asia the prescription is far less clear." Kevin Watkins of Oxfam--an Oxford-based, nongovernment development agency--says the IMF may shortcut Asia's recent progress. "What differentiates East Asia has been its ability to create growth with equity," he says. "Now the IMF programs threaten to break that link. You may have growth, but with continued poverty...
Indeed, in a business brimming with bad management--for example, the handling of Jackson's popular yet troubled 1984 Victory Tour--Alwaleed's sharp-penciled philosophy may be just the ticket. And for Alwaleed, already a record producer in the Middle East, the partnership could be an inexpensive shortcut to big-time entertainment deals. "With Michael's negative image in America, people concluded 'He's through,'" says an Alwaleed adviser. "The prince likes an underdog. He moves in when it appears a business has no chance. It was easier to get involved with Michael Jackson because he was down...
...weren't already hard enough to get Americans to eat less and exercise more, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration last week gave the green light to yet another weight-loss shortcut, recommending approval of a new drug, called orlistat, that prevents the body from absorbing as much as 30% of the fat it takes...
...regarded the body as a burden from which the fretful soul longs to be freed. From the time of St. Paul, some elements of Christianity have indulged an impulse to subjugate the body. But like Judaism and Islam, it ultimately teaches reverence for life and rejects suicide as a shortcut to heaven...