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Although A Life-long Fashion Dropout, I Have Absorbed Enough By Reading Harper's Bazaar While Waiting At The Dentist's To Have Grasped That The Purpose Of Fashion Is To Make A Statement. My Own Modest Statement, Discerned By True Cognoscenti, Is, "woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.

You Look At The Large Problems That We Face - That Would Be Overpopulation, Water Shortages, Global Warming And Aids, I Suppose - All Of That Needs International Cooperation To Be Solved.

Of Course, It Has Never Paid Much.

It's Like, Duh. Just When You Thought There Wasn't A Dime's Worth Of Difference Between The Two Parties, The Republicans Go And Prove You're Wrong.

Economist Frederick Thayer Has Studied The History Of Our Balanced-budget Crusades And Has Come Up With Some Depressing Statistics. We Have Had Six Major Depressions In Our History (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 And 1929); All Six Of Them Followed Sustained Periods Of Reducing The National Debt. We Have Had Almost Chronic Deficits Since The 1930s, And There Has Been No Depression Since Then - The Longest Crash-free Period In Our History.