W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
We are now hearing a lot about the promise and peril of "welfare reform." To its champions, the legislation nearing congressional approval would destroy the "culture of dependency." Critics see it as further impoverishing many poor families. Both are correct. The exercise aims to...
The other day, after listening to 10 minutes of Muzak while waiting to talk with someone about getting our CD player repaired, we decided that many products and services have successfully resisted the notion of progress. For an hour we vacillated between optimism-things are...
Is the market going to make good on day two of its rally attempt by delivering a follow-through day, perhaps as early as Friday? That's probably the million dollar question for a few well-heeled institutional types at this stage of the market's correction. On the...
Tens of thousands of people on Friday marked the first anniversary of the death of longtime President Saparmurat Niyazov, laying flowers at monuments to the autocratic leader and streaming to his mausoleum.Niyazov, who crushed dissent in more than two decades at the helm of the...
