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...Tamiya Waterlines, noticeably more expensive than the English and French kits. I bought one, and every afternoon for about a week I sat at my little typing table and assembled the Fubuki, a Japanese destroyer. It was a tiny little ship, no longer than a pencil and no wider than my thumb. But it was as fine and filigreed as the inside of a wristwatch. I painstakingly painted it to look like the picture on the box and then let it sit on my desk for the rest of the semester. Somehow, for me, it still represented Japan...
...methodology that is so useful in cases like this is grossly inapplicable to wider social issues—Bok underplays the negative influence of television, for example. The role of government in determining quality of life is large, but not quantifiable; if children fight with their parents, if pop music has become derivative and commercialized, if Hollywood films pander to our baser instincts while better movies are made in Europe, our government is partially to blame. Bok’s attempt to quantify its role in these things fails, but when he is confined to a less overarching...
...department recently added three new non-tenured positions, doubling the size of its junior faculty, and its hires have come from a wider cross-section of fields within philosophy...
...percent, and everything from mortgages to car loans to corporate bonds should now be a little cheaper. Wednesday, he even managed to catch the markets by surprise, like he did back in January, and that gives this latest rate cut a head start on its slow seep into the wider economy. May 15 is still nearly a month away, and the full FOMC, with another month's numbers spread out on the mahogany conference table, may well move again...
Despite these defiant expectations, the possibility of increased unemployment could threaten the sector's healthy condition. For investors, the question is whether cheap mortgages can trump wider fears about the economy...