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Then again, maybe not. The rich benefits that have made Europe a sweet place to work have clogged its economic arteries. Call it Eurosclerosis--the combination of a staggering tax burden and a blanket of regulations that smother new businesses and entrepreneurship. Symptoms: Europe's unemployment rate of 11% is twice as high as the U.S.'s, and its job-creation chart is a flat line. Over the past three years, the U.S. has created 8.4 million new jobs, Europe none. Significantly, many of those new American jobs pay higher than average wages, and as many as 60% are managerial...
...America's sugar growers, how sweet it still is. The industry's profit-enhancing price supports are mostly still standing. The program keeps the cost of domestic sugar at nearly twice the world level, and critics say it takes a $1.4 billion yearly bite out of U.S. consumers' pockets. "When it comes to sugar, there is just no reform," complains John Frydenlund, director of agricultural policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "It's a colossal disappointment...
Houston, a former member of the '60s R.-and-B. quartet The Sweet Inspirations, isn't as famous as her superstar daughter Whitney, but Face to Face shows she's got a throat made from the same 18-karat gold. And although the elder Houston's new album probably won't sell as well as slicker, more contemporary-sounding gospel releases--and it certainly won't move as many units as the typical Whitney CD--its unabashed religiosity indicates that Houston has her sights set on a higher, very personal audience...
...album's high point, however, draws from pure pop: a gospel rendition of Marvin Gaye's love song How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You). "'Cause you were better to me/ Than I was to myself/ For me there is you/ There ain't nobody else," Houston sings, as the chorus shadows her words with "I want to stop/ And thank you Jesus." On the song Houston's tart, high voice is strong and slightly rough, and the accompaniment is a warm wave of piano, organ and bass guitar. It's Motown with angels' wings, and gospel...
Here was Clinton at his best and worst, showing his serial sincerity, his sweet tooth for books, ideas, intimacy, an appetite that powers his presidency and also frustrates it. He leaves the impression of a man who thinks conversation is a form of leadership and speechmaking a form of decision making. It's hard to imagine such a session with Dole, beyond a tour of the Senate bill hopper. He has said he hasn't seen the movies he attacks. He is allergic to rumination. The emcee for his rally in Biloxi, Mississippi, warmed up the crowd by chanting, "Dole...