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...sure, some economic incentives are handed out for a seemingly worthwhile public purpose. The tax breaks that companies receive to locate in inner cities come to mind. Without them, companies might not invest in those neighborhoods. However well intended, these subsidies rarely produce lasting results. They may provide short-term jobs but not long-term employment. And in the end, the costs outweigh any benefits...
...participating in the single currency, but their stocks account for nearly half the equity value in Europe. Leresche's advice: "Choose a fund that has euro-denominated investments but a Europe-wide view." He recommends the Luxembourg-based Parvest fund, which boasts relatively low fees, superior long-term performance and stable management. Other experts on the European market recommend Fidelity's Europe fund, the Lipper Premium Euro Equity Fund and the Scudder Greater Europe Fund...
Meanwhile, the mainstream pro-life movement gained momentum in Congress by shifting the debate to partial-birth abortion. Until then, many of us had assumed that late-term abortions were rare and unobtainable in all but the gravest circumstances. We were wrong. While it's true that most "health-of-mother" exceptions to third-trimester abortions are tragic cases, too many others are not and use health, as defined broadly by the courts to include emotional and psychological factors, to squeeze through the clinic door. And the point of viability has changed since the trimester construction of Roe v. Wade...
...need to be with these works very long before realizing how feeble a term "drip" is for the ways--the numberless, subtle and improvised ways--Pollock's paint got on the canvas. His public notoriety came in part from public resentment. Real artists lay watercolor washes or put glazes over body color, but this one just spilled liquids incontinently, as though painting were no more demanding than knocking over a cup of coffee or taking a pee. But when you look at these pictures, it isn't so. Pollock was a consummate aesthete. (The fact that he could also...
...Bill Clinton serves out his term [CLINTON'S CRISIS, Oct. 19], he will have defended the presidency from the dragons of gossip, the wiles of wannabes and the lapses into bad behavior on the part of folks who elected him in 1996--who really don't want the government messing around in their consensual pleasures any more than you do. ED ROSELENE Rochester...