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...Perhaps the most perspicacious commentary on the new policy belongs to The Onion, the popular satirical newspaper, which last week ran the headline, "After Careful Consideration, Bush Recommends Oil Drilling." Unless the president and his team can duck Democratic accusations that they are industry puppets, it will be difficult for we energy gluttons to feel that this White House has our best interests at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bush's Policy Too Oil-Slick? | 5/18/2001 | See Source »

...Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: Imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...dropped 8% in the first quarter, a stunning reversal from the double-digit growth forecast last year. Not wanting to get it wrong again, a lot of CEOs are simply saying they'll have to wait and see. Worsening the vision void, new regulations require that companies say nothing unless they say it in a venue for all to hear. Regulation FD (fair disclosure) has curtailed guidance on earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zero Visibility | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...Jeri Ryan plays this half borg, but the only inhuman thing I can see about her is this little design on her cheek, unless borgs have giant breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate Mulgrew | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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