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...payments to Supportkids whether we filed those garnishments or not," she says. She recalls her first case in November of last year. "We did nothing for it, and Supportkids took a third of the money," she says. "The mom's name was Mary, and she sent me a handwritten thank-you card...
...Thank you for your story "Inside the Mind of the CEO President" [NATION, Aug. 5]. I read it as a humor piece. You said President Bush "loves it when the elite are upstaged by the streetwise" because he thinks it reflects his life story. Bush is about as streetwise as Malcolm Forbes Sr. was on his Harley. But when the article went on to credit Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Bush's Council of Economic Advisers with deep thinking about the economy, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Perhaps George W.'s message on corporate fraud...
While the risk of nuclear war between major powers still exists, it's less acute now than 15 years ago, thank God. Many people worry about terrorists, and so do I, but then I reflect that terrorists could at worst kill "only" a few tens of millions of us. The even graver environmental problems that could do in all our children are environmental ones, such as global warming and land and water degradation...
After the immediate shock," says best-selling British novelist Iain Banks, "I thought, 'Thank goodness I'm not writing a book at the moment' because you just think, 'What's the point?'" A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the arts community - including Banks, whose novel Dead Air comes out Sept. 5 - is among those starting to recover from creative numbness. And European screens, stages and pages are starting to see the result. The responses seem to fall into three main categories. The first is epitaph-like memorials of the day itself, such as Anne Nelson's salute...
...That's the kind of fine print that could be lost on most people. Voters in 29 congressional districts - all but five of them Republican - have been hearing radio ads urging them to "thank" their local representative for voting "to add meaningful prescription-drug coverage to Medicare for all seniors." The ads were run by a conservative group called the United Seniors Association and financed by the pharmaceutical lobby - which helped write the House bill...