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Harvard's left needs to discover a sense of humor and not shrink from using caustic wit and sarcasm. It could also benefit from a more combative stance. Mockery can be an especially effective device for combating the hypocrisy or ridiculous obsessions of the right...
Enter Santa, dressed as the GDP. Late in the week, with both sides still struggling to close the deal, a bounding U.S. economy closed it for them. The Congressional Budget Office quietly informed budget negotiators that the economic boom would produce an unexpected surge in tax revenues that would shrink the deficit by an estimated $225 billion over five years. As if to confirm it was not a mirage, evidence of the economy's strength kept emerging all week. First came news that during the first quarter, gross domestic product was up 5.6%, the biggest gain in a decade. Then...
...read this mysterious parable? Not to have wondered what happened next? What did the lady do with the goose? Was she headed for work, and did she have the kind of boss who said, sure, sure, stick him in marketing? Or was she late for therapy, and did the shrink ask, "How long have you felt this way, Ms. Smith...
...voters to reject increased taxes and public spending as the solution to rising unemployment. "If we want to affirm ourselves as a great economic and political power, equal to the dollar and the yen," the president said, "France must adopt the euro in 1999 and see its budget shrink." The president is gambling on winning early elections before enacting a new round of highly unpopular belt-tightening. Recent polls are not encouraging: One survey reported that 53 percent of the French electorate would vote against Chirac and his party...
...litigation would require an act of Congress. Tobacco firms and plaintiffs also reportedly differ on the total compensation by about $100 billion. And anti-tobacco activists may not like the deal, TIME's Bruce Van Voorst notes, feeling that the industry should be made to suffer and made to shrink. But as Kadlec notes, lawsuits are ultimately about compensation, and this may be the best deal the plaintiffs are going to get: "The plaintiffs will never be able to put the cigarette companies out of business. The industry has all the money it needs to keep the battle going...