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...higher proportion of their income to service their borrowings (and thus are more vulnerable, as is the economy, to a fall in asset prices or a rise in interest rates). Under Howard and Costello, foreign debt has doubled to $A393 billion (equivalent to 50% of national output). No wonder voters think the cost of money is the marker for economic safe hands - they're geared to the back teeth, and interest rates will only have to rise by a few points to burn the most vulnerable. As soon as the economy cools, most households will renegotiate their consumer and home...
...Bush family is such a national force that even the former President at times has to pinch himself and wonder. He was standing in Madison Square Garden and watching his son George W. He leaned down and said to Barbara, "Do you realize our son is President of the United States?" Whether George W. was President or not, the father could still cast a critical eye his son's way. "Great speech," he said. "But maybe a little too long...
...hectare platform atop the Temple Mount is so freighted with history and legend, it's a wonder the walls can bear the weight. Jews believe that at its center is the rock on which Abraham bound Isaac. Christians believe that at its southern end, Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers. And Muslims, who call it Haram al-Sharif (noble sanctuary), believe it is the site of Muhammad's Night Journey, recounted in the Koran, in which the Prophet ascended to heaven. But today this sacred place is battling simple gravity. A section of the Mount's eastern retaining...
...swipes at such institutions as government ("a French politician without a mistress is like a sheriff without a gun - people think he has no firepower"), cheek-kissing ("if ever there's a serious epidemic of facial herpes, they'll have to get condoms for their heads"), kitchen utensils ("no wonder the French make such good engineers - you need a degree in industrial design just to cook dinner") and even Marianne, the French Uncle Sam: "This being France, instead of a bearded old uncle who looks as if he should be advertising fried chicken, they have a seminaked woman." The book...
After reading Klein's column, I'm left to wonder in what ethereal realm he is living! My Republican-backing brother and I haven't spoken in 11 years, and take special care to avoid being at the same family functions. Things got worse between us after Clinton's impeachment. Most other adults I know have experienced a similar politically engendered family separation. Klein's portrayal of a passive neutrality by the majority of Americans is a fiction in his own mind. It certainly doesn't jibe with the real, day-to-day America most of us experience. PHIL STAHL...