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...hard football fan, but I always catch the Super Bowl. "The Game" is a unique microcosm of American culture, consistently bringing a mammoth slice of the population to the television. A plethora of testosterone-charged males use the Super Bowl as a means to machismo...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: The Boon of the Bowl | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

...better than tax cuts as a way of combating slowdowns, in which case the main weapon of recession fighting would rest with Greenspan. All the same, Bush is hoping that he can get the Fed chairman to signal in some way that he too would agree to a big slice, perhaps during his upcoming testimony before Congress. Greenspan thinks the surplus should be used to pay down the national debt, but he would accept seeing some of it go back as a tax cut before he would allow Congress to use it for more spending programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Slowdown: Is A Tax Cut The Right Remedy? | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...American "ideas" for finally closing a peace deal. Arafat would get a Palestinian state, with Israel ceding all of the Gaza Strip and 95% of the West Bank (in exchange for the 5% of the West Bank Israel keeps for its settlements there, the Palestinians would get an extra slice of territory in Israel's Negev). Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would have to give up his demand that millions of Palestinian exiles have the "right" to return to homes in Israel lost during Mideast wars. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak would have to make concessions as well: Palestine would gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bridge To Peace | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...better than tax cuts as a way of combating slowdowns, in which case the main weapon of recession fighting would rest with Greenspan. All the same, Bush is hoping that he can get the Fed chairman to signal in some way that he too would agree to a big slice, perhaps during his upcoming testimony before Congress. Greenspan thinks the surplus should be used to pay down the national debt, but he would accept seeing some of it go back as a tax cut before he would allow Congress to use it for more spending programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Tax Cut the Right Remedy? | 12/30/2000 | See Source »

...student notes that even those who are distracted by the initiations have far more to worry about. Each day, hawkers force pamphlets, brochures, buttons, advertisements and questionable foodstuffs into the hands of students just trying to grab a slice of pizza in the Greenhouse or wake up before an astrophysics lecture...

Author: By Melissa R. Brewster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Punches? What Punches? | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

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