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Moving past former financial woes, the Kennedy School of Government is projecting a fourth consecutive budget surplus for the upcoming fiscal year, encouraging news for a school that faced a nearly $6 million shortfall just four years...
...just like, man, I was too scared to even go down and play,” Brown says.Eventually, Brown tried out—and caught the eye of Walsh. He had never had a power bat, but his slick glove at short impressed the coaches, despite a surplus of young middle infielders on the roster.“You know,” Walsh says, “the interesting thing was every day you’d be coming in to the office after the fall practice and you’d be going...
...attacks shook the nation's confidence and scrambled the assumptions Americans had about their place in the world. Since then, Washington - and by that I mean the actions of both parties - has done little at home or abroad to re-instill that confidence. Americans have seen a budget surplus disappear and two wars launched, all while they have had to withstand longer lines at airports and higher prices for gasoline. All these changes, great and small, have masked the fact that 9/11 has changed Americans' instincts, too. And so even if it can be rationally defended, a deal that would...
...There was a case for mild cuts when Bush came to office. The economy was stalling, and there was a budget surplus. We have big deficits now, and an economy chugging along at 4% growth. Bush's addiction is a reflection of ideology run amok and a twisted reading of recent history. Yes, the economy began to pick up when Ronald Reagan offered his famous 1981 tax-reduction plan, but it continued to grow when Reagan raised taxes in 1982 and '83. And how to explain the economic boom of the 1990s? Bill Clinton's tax increases for the wealthy...
...sense of national responsibility. With the prime reason for western alienation gone, "western Canadians will have to reinvent themselves" as more active contributors to the national dialogue, says Roger Gibbins, head of the Canada West Foundation in Calgary. Gibbins, who points out that Alberta's C$9 billion-plus surplus is as large as the federal government's surplus, suggests that westerners will have to develop "thoughtful" ideas for sharing the revenues derived from their booming oil and gas reserves. "We are already working on new ideas, like a nationwide sustainable energy project," says Gibbins. Other west-based concepts that...