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...Presidents cannot dictate their own budgets (as Prime Ministers can in parliamentary systems like Britain's); here, Congress has the ultimate say. Even worse, more than half the federal budget goes to entitlements and "transfer payments" like Social Security, where government is merely a conveyor belt transferring money from younger workers to older folks. What is left, "discretionary" spending, is a mere 8% of the $11 trillion economy Presidents are reputed to control...
...Slavitt’s son Evan launched an unsuccessful bid for Massachusetts attorney general. The younger Slavitt was unable to attain the 10,000 signatures needed to earn a spot on the ballot, but he encouraged his father to take a stab at the political process...
LEARNING TO TODDLE: Museums draw ever younger crowds...
McCall Smith, on extended leave from his job, is prolific. He has written more than 30 children's books (he has two daughters--one at college, the other younger) and a monograph on the criminal law of Botswana. A new series of books about Isabel Dalhousie, a female gumshoe in Edinburgh, is well under way; the first installment, The Sunday Philosophy Club, is due out in September. A satirical novel about academics, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, is expected in early 2005. And the sixth Ramotswe book is already finished. How does he manage it all? "I'm very lucky," he says...
...working on his autobiography. He had to catch up on almost three decades of social change, and one of the things he had to learn about was AIDS. At first, this 75-year-old man did not have the most enlightened view. But within a year--long before other, younger South African leaders--he understood that AIDS was an enormous tragedy for his country and his continent, and he saw it as another moral challenge in a life of facing up to them. After he stepped down, he became a thorn in the side of his chosen successor...