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...told-you-so" chorus. As the economy worsens, the federal government collects less in taxes. The White House is already predicting that revenues will be down by $56 billion for the 2001 fiscal year. And economists who testified recently before the Senate Budget Committee predicted that revenues would shrink another $50-70 billion...
Remember the young Woody Allen's cosmic angst in the film Annie Hall? Having just read that the universe is expanding, the boy is so worried that he can't do his homework. "Someday it will break apart," he tells his shrink, "and that will be the end of everything." But, his mother snaps, "you're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding...
...second, "Now Dig This: the Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern," is an anthology of previously uncollected writings and interviews that appeared in a range of publications, from the "quality-lit" (Southern's phrase) mag "the Paris Review" to "Puritan" (the adult publication that was so explicit it was sold shrink-wrapped). Both books fill a significant void, offering evidence that Southern remained a potent, wildly creative scribe during his last 25 years on this planet. His skill in career-planning never matched his consummate wit and imagination (in fact he was a dismal dealmaker), but at least now his "invisible...
...unsigned by VCE and with worldwide surplus-chip inventories estimated to be worth $30 billion, the company seems poised to take even greater advantage of the network effect. "The potential is huge," says John McCarthy, an e-business analyst for Forrester Research. Indeed, projections that the semiconductor business will shrink 17% this year seem to be a boon...
...used to the fact that his opinions can carry significant weight. While they may no longer move markets, Summers’ words should be equally significant in the educational sphere. The president of Harvard has played a somewhat muted national role in recent decades, but Summers should not shrink from using Harvard’s presidency as a bully pulpit to speak on issues affecting the interests of the University and of the educational community. Summers should also consider the suggestion advanced on this page by his colleague Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76—-namely, that...