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...years ago, there weren't that many people we could borrow money from," notes Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs, a leading international economist. "We were reluctant to run deficits out of fear of creating sky-high inflation. Now there is a global bank-teller window that is open 24 hours a day, and we've been one of the most frequent customers." Sachs warns, however, that the bender cannot last. "We're faking it," he says. "Our living standard isn't being maintained by higher productivity or wages. It's maintained by foreign capital...
Plus a course in the politics of southern Africa (professor: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker), a tutorial on neoconservative thought (professor: Irving Kristol of the American Enterprise Institute), and a briefing on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. And all for just one pupil: Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...
...service, far more than the average household spends on the checks and stamps used to pay bills. But the biggest obstacle is that home computers have no way to produce hard cash, so they fail to eliminate a customer's periodic trek to the bank or automated-teller machine...
According to Homans, Kang had been drinking at his MIT fraternity, Delta Upsilon in Boston, when he decided to cross the Harvard Bridge to get $10 from an automated teller machine on the Cambridge side of the Charles River to buy a pizza. He had gotten the money and was headed back to Boston when he encountered Foppiano head-on, Homans said. He said Kang was not intoxicated...
...despair incarnate. The glib hustler in designer jeans glides down the movie line. The kids with the grimy windshield rags orbit the intersection. The old man with no eyes sits on the steam grates in winter in a wet cloud of pain. The obsequious panhandler waits outside the automated-teller machines, where wallets are full and walls are transparent. Somehow, always never seemed so often...