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...second was that I was recently on a JihadAir jumbojet bound for Teheran with a heavily armed terrorist who claimed to be a close personal friend of North According to this guy, North is a "real swell fellow...
...doubling up their substantial incomes, some young couples swell the ranks of the well-to-do by creating one upper-class family instead of two middle-class ones. Says Harvard's Bloom: "A pairing-off based on economics is occurring. Higher-income men and higher-income women are tending to find each other." Manhattanites Anthony Chase, 31, and his wife Debra, 30, who are both from solidly middle-class backgrounds, are likely to exceed by far the financial dreams of their parents. The Chases started dating at Harvard, where Debra earned a law degree and Anthony picked up a combined...
Another danger is that the legislation could swell the already bloated federal budget deficit. Although the law was not intended either to raise or reduce revenues, TIME's economists agreed that no one can know for sure what its impact on the budget will be. And for all the rhetoric from Congress and the White House about the need to simplify the tax code, the reform bill still contains many vagaries. Tax shelters affecting real estate, for example, have + been effectively squelched, but those involving oil and gas exploration remain relatively untouched. In Aaron's view, the major business losers...
...bitterness continued to swell this year. In July the CBS Broadcast Group announced that it was eliminating 700 additional jobs, more than 8% of the work force. Some 90 positions in the news division were included. Emotions flamed higher when the network announced the removal from the air, effective next January, of the CBS Morning News, a program that cost $34 million annually to produce but perennially finished last in the breakfast sweepstakes. In his syndicated newspaper column, 60 Minutes Commentator Andy Rooney wrote, "CBS . . . no longer stands for anything. They're just corporate initials...
...banal and devoid of wit; the songs, though hummable and winsome, tend to have the same simple beat; and the narrative -- a reworking of Pygmalion in which a cheerily crooked Cockney finds himself heir to an earldom and a fortune if he can learn to behave like a swell -- is comic but farfetched. Yet the gaudy $4 million production has an unabashed desire to please, touches of sprightly invention (a mounted suit of armor abruptly walks offstage; ancestor portraits come alive and tap-dance) and a hugely likable cast, led by Robert Lindsay as the newfound aristocrat and Maryann Plunkett...