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...exactly the time they need it. No wonder economist Brian Wesbury said last year’s tax relief, “could very well be the best-timed tax cut in history.” Due to it, the current recession will likely be the smallest and shortest in the last 50 years. Along with tax cuts, President Bush has proposed immediate assistance to laid-off workers, extending unemployment benefits and helping the unemployed retain their health insurance. Some overlook this important element of his plan...
...bigger subjects like career advice. I’ve never encountered anyone whose personality was more like my own. Maybe that’s because I’m his son. It was always a pleasure to talk to him about anything, and I will sorely miss even the shortest conversations...
...combined they make the star quality that defines an artist's relationship with the public. And she consciously pushes the puerility, especially in a recent series of Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong concerts. "I get away with murder," she revels. "I mean, those shorts must have been the shortest in Hong Kong history. And then leaping into a bathtub ... " Shorts? They were more like a belt. Her legs were painted gold from the groin down, like something out of a James Bond credit sequence. At one point she stepped into a foaming bath and was sponged down by four scantily...
...Berner, chief U.S. economist for Morgan Stanley, says that while a recession may have got under way in the spring, the rebates should underwrite modest growth by this fall. (A recession is commonly viewed as two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP.) Says Berner: "It's likely to be the shortest and mildest [contraction] on record...
While much of Rudenstine’s agenda, time and even image have been consumed by the Capital Campaign, he has, in one of the shortest presidential tenures in Harvard’s history, accomplished some of the most significant changes in the University’s history. In addition to purchasing the land in Allston—where one or another of Harvard’s faculties will eventually end up—there was the long-awaited merger with sister school Radcliffe College, vocal support of affirmative action policies, the bolstering of the Afro-American Studies Department...