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...Stiglitz say their estimate is four times the projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). But that CBO sum only takes into account the direct costs of waging the war, according to Bilmes’ paper, and it does not include the money the government must spend to replace worn military equipment or care for disabled veterans. A CBO spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter.As well as calculating the broader budgetary costs to the federal government of waging war in Iraq, Bilmes also added more elusive macroeconomic costs to the estimation. The loss of young Americans...
...past 50 years have been “lived” on Plympton Street: first as a neophyte bookseller, then as an actual one. My introduction to the shop came in 1956. The shop, with its worn couch, its even more battered armchair, its dark-grained bookshelves, and a table piled high with books, was the perfect fantasy bookshop. Friends, acquaintances, whatever literary light was in town would drop by to visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies...
...head to the empty playground behind our house for infield work and a game of catch, a request he couldn’t help but oblige. (Batting practice was sadly off-limits, due to the number of very fragile windows in the very near vicinity.) We must have worn his shoulder out, demanding ever higher pop-flies to field and harder ground balls to retrieve as the sunlight slowly disappeared, hours after we’d first left the house.Somehow we made do indoors. Two nights before a game he’d pull out his yellow legal...
...clear people are tired of walking on eggshells, afraid to offend those with different beliefs, ideas, and lifestyles. It's grown exhausting, and they want their lives back. The idea of diversity seems to have worn out its welcome. It is now like a house guest who has stayed too long...
President Bush followed a well-worn path to the Goldman Sachs well when he tapped Hank Paulson, the firm's CEO since 1999, to succeed John Snow as Treasury Secretary. Across Wall Street, they are hoping that Paulson can bring a gravitas to the job that has been missing since the tenures of Larry Summers and another former Goldman executive, Robert Rubin, both of whom served under President Clinton...