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...this irony, this self-awareness, has drained us. As the result of our creativity, we are left, my friends, in a world of wavering, accelerated only by our continued reliance on instrumental reason. We don't just waver. When looking for the answers, we stagger, stumble, falter and fumble. We are stuck. Even here at Harvard, my classmates, we've become tired of ambition and its costs. Yes, sitting here among us are some future senators, maybe a curator for the Met or the MFA, a few novelists and certainly some George Soroses. All right then, many George Soroses...
...Clinton Administration is about to"reinvent" Social Security-- make that tweak -- with a new scheme to stagger millions of retirement and disability checks now sent out at the beginning of each month. The plan doesn't do much for the system's bankrupt future, but officials of Vice President Gore's National Performance Review say it ease the monthly burden on the U.S. Postal Service by spreading it out, and will save the government up to $1 billion over five years. Recipients will also be required to receive their checks electronically by direct deposit.TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratansays the worst...
...guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape and cardboard. I stagger through a glitter gulch of Gummi fauna, Boston baked beans, gobstoppers, Good & Plenty, Tart'n Tiny. Then, bingo: bulk jelly beans, premium grade. I put my cube under the spout and fill...
Preliminary damage estimates ranged from $35 billion to $100 billion or more. Brokers, bankers and businessmen around the world read such estimates as a possible forecast of tough times ahead. But the Japanese economy is so big and resilient that while it might stagger, it could absorb the quake's blow. Trade with the U.S. and other major partners would be slowed, but delays in production could be made up later. As a longer range assessment took hold, the Nikkei leveled off and closed down 3.8% from the week's start...
...William Gates and Arthur Agee are sports heroes and working stiffs -- magicians on the high school basketball court who stagger under the burden of producing wins (and glory and revenue) for their team. Documentarians Steve James, Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert have produced an epic of love, betrayal, heartbreak, true grit...