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...Enronization" of budget politics has begun. To wit: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad says he was driving to work Monday morning and the thought occurred to him that "the biggest problem with Enron was that they were hiding debt - hiding it from their shareholders, hiding it from creditors, hiding it from themselves. I think that's exactly what the federal government is doing. The federal government is now engaged in hiding and understating debt...
...sober wit of this comedy arises not from conventional artifice--snappy dialogue, wacky situations--but from a realistically drawn ensemble interacting truthfully with one another. And gently, insinuatingly rebelling against their dismal fate. --By Richard Schickel...
...little demonstration of the more subtle, sexy textures so beloved of Erykah Badu and used to great effect on Scott’s debut album. The exception is the playful “Do You Remember,” which allows Scott to give free reign to her wit as she cuts an ex-lover down to size: “You acted like your…hmmmm / Didn’t smell / Well I was there / Always been there / I remember that...
...associate editorial chair of The Crimson, is a biology concentrator in Eliot House beginning his second semester as a columnist. He plans to pour the classic Harvard life cocktail: smooth and delicious sometimes, viscous and corrosive at others—but always topping it off with a twist of wit. His column will appear on alternate Thursdays...
...broad learning and boundless intellectual curiosity, of impeccable integrity, of impish wit and gently clever pen,” Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley “Ibby” Nathans said in an email message...