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...Right froths and fulminates. Except that to me, Tom Brokaw and Judy Woodruff are not liberal; whatever their private beliefs, on camera they are part of the genteel, gray center, straining for the appearance of impartiality. By traditional standards of left and right, the network anchors deserve the liberal tag no more than NAFTA-loving, welfare-abolishing Bill Clinton does. I'd call Clinton a moderate Republican. The Radio Right would call him the antichrist...
Both Gore and his running mate Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) have increasingly questioned Bush's leadership credentials in the closing weeks, especially on the airwaves. A new Gore television advertisement includes the non-discreet tag line: "Is he [Bush] ready to lead America...
IMPACT: Depends on the stock market. The $1 trillion price tag means the program may go bankrupt 10 years earlier; to cover the cost, Bush will have to cut benefits. If the market continues its historical rate of return of 7% a year (or even if it gains a more modest 5% a year), such cuts would be painless because the private-account nest egg for most future beneficiaries would more than equal the benefits they would receive under the current system. But there's no benefit floor to protect losers...
IMPACT: The smaller tax cuts are less likely to undermine the surplus. But their targeted nature means not everyone gets a cut and leaves doubts about the total price tag. For example, if enough people take advantage of the savings accounts, the 10-year cost rises $400 billion beyond what Gore has budgeted...
Workers love IM for the same reason that kids do: it lets them hold virtual meetings anytime and anyplace. No more playing telephone tag or pulling down an e-mail screen. Instead, IM users can spot who is online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would...