| RELIGION |
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JESUS GETS
MAKEOVER
New look is dark, menacing,
mysterious, sexy. |
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| SPORTS |
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Spring Training Ends and It's
"Wait Till Next Year"
Fans look ahead longingly to next
February when pitchers and catchers
report. |
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| LAW |
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Anti-Bullies Law Meeting
Stiff Resistance
"Just where do you think you're
going with that legislation?"
sponsor is asked while being held upside
down. |
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Regulation Removed from
Duties of Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Board will sit around and discuss energy
instead. |
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| ART |
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GOOD
NEWS: PORTRAIT OF
WASHINGTON SAVED FROM
AUCTION
Bad news: Historic painting
sold to Taliban. |
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| PRO
AND CON |
| "Lower Interest Rates" |
PRO (IBM Deep
BlueII):
We
need lower interest rates so folks  hoping to start a business or buy a house
don't go into debt paying off the loan.
Especially in the field of computers, a
field I'm quite familiar with,
entrepreneurship only flourishes when
there's an incentive to invest.
CON
(Cray 8000):
You're not the only one
who knows about  this business, blue boy, and as far as I
can compute there's nothing out there but
a minefield of bad investments right now
which, as anybody with a sense of history
knows, can lead straight to the
"D" word. And I ain't talkin'
doughnuts.
PRO (IBM Deep BlueII):
Excuse me, Mr. Know-it-all, but this
business was founded on risk, all of which grew and thrived on low interest
rates. And speaking of history (do they
still make Crays for Christ's sake?), you
probably don't have the computing power
to figure out that the current downturn
is a typical business cycle that occurs
every 14.3332 years and there's really
nothing we can do about it.
CON (Cray 8000):
Wow, you carried that out to
four places.Anyway, that still doesn't refute my
argument that we're in a slowdown and the
worst thing we can do now is to encourage
people to make a lot of bad investments.
How did he do that?. |
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