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...tactic is a “targeting-wealth” strategy—that is really what the PSLM is about. Targeting those with money is a throwback to the ’60s—a comparison that will give student activists glee—and is an attack on the very principles that maintain America as a democracy. Citizens must be free to be entrepreneurs, to create wealth, and to enjoy it. This is obvious. But the PSLM insists that because Harvard has a $19 billion endowment, that it owes workers more money. Really? Sit in at McDonald?...
RUSSIA. Last week the spy spat generated some real heat. When the Administration announced the mass expulsion and Moscow responded in kind, it recalled all the old Soviet-era standoffs. Moscow hyperventilated that the expulsions were a "throwback to the cold war" resulting from "cowboy-style" tactics. But the Bush team says the move showed their man's quiet muscle. The message to Moscow: Dubya is going to tell it like it is, with no pussyfooting around when Russia misbehaves...
...stars every bit as human and accessible as some of the early characters, if better scrubbed. Richard Petty won 200 races. David Pearson beat Petty head to head 33 times to 30. Bobby Allison won 84 times in 25 years. Cale Yarborough won 83 times and was an entertaining throwback, a broad-bellied, bullheaded racer, maybe the biggest s.o.b. on the track this side...
This may seem a throwback notion in the digital era, but industry veterans say a knowledgeable travel agent can be a miracle worker when things go wrong. Unlike an airline employee, a travel agent is working for you, and he or she can search options faster and more efficiently than...
...Surrendered Wives circles have sprouted in cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. The book has understandably provoked strong reactions. Popular therapist and author John Gray praises it, on the front cover, as a "practical and valuable tool." But UCLA psychologist Andrew Christensen moans, "It's destructive. It's a throwback, and it doesn't protect women...