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Replacing a system of distribution requirements, the General Education program was approved by the Faculty in late October, 1945, just three months after the Japanese surrender and the victory of the Western powers in World War II. Victory in the war was widely credited not to a surplus of men, machinery or economic muscle, but rather to the superiority of Western culture...
...greed arose the primal names of American business: Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie and Frick (steel), Vanderbilt (railroads), the Goulds, Astors, Fisks and, towering over them all, the magister ludi of saber-toothed capitalism, J. Pierpont Morgan. After 1870, America lost all its Puritan inhibitions about the gratuitous display of surplus wealth...
...downtowns we once gave up for dead are bristling with coffee bars, green markets, life. New York City, that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest drop in crime, a rekindled economy and--mirabile dictu!--an $800 million budget surplus. Out in the suburbs, our gardens are costly and ambitious, and shiny grills are taking up residence on our new redwood decks. The statisticians assure us our houses are more valuable, our marriages more solid, our teenagers more chaste (and better at math...
...cast was proficient but encountered the same dilemma as the production as a whole. Trying to keep the audience chuckling throughout, cast members delivered their lines with surplus energy and enthusiasm. As a result, the humor was a bit forced at times, and the sense of suffering which emerges in Parker's stories was lost. Although the actors made their characters pleasant and witty company for the evening, they all ended up seeming two-dimensional. Some of the cast members had their best and most believable moments when their characters were drunk, a condition that invites broader and more slapstick...
...from the agreement -- NAFTA-generated trade among the U.S., Mexico and Canada reached a record $420 billion last year -- Congressional opponents led by Richard Gephardt counter by citing 118,000 U.S. jobs lost to cheaper Mexican labor. Most telling, opponents say, is that under NAFTA a $1.4 billion trade surplus in 1994 has plummeted to a $15.4 billion deficit. Congressmen are also unhappy that fast track has prevented them from adding labor and environmental safeguards to the pact, and vow not to let that happen on any hemisphere-wide agreement. As a result, the rest of the region is increasingly...