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A month's worth of Thomas Oliphant
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A new Social Security option
(12/4/2001)
WASHINGTON AS ALWAYS, even with an 800-pound gorilla like Social Security, there is a third way - especially when the first two ways have lost large chunks of their economic and political viability.
US government makes it tougher on states
(12/2/2001)
WASHINGTON IT IS ALREADY the worst set of problems confronting state and local governments in a decade. The only question is whether it will become the worst set of problems confronting state and local governments in two decades.
A start to healing the economy
(11/27/2001)
WASHINGTON NOW THAT THE RECESSION is officially a recession, the historical record has been served, but - alas - not the impending economic events that will comprise it.
A housing story with a happy ending
(11/18/2001)
''I WAS SO happy,'' says Yolanda DeSimone, who is 85 and doesn't look it. ''I'm not going to have to climb stairs anymore.''
Florida's system is still broken
(11/13/2001)
WASHINGTON AL GORE did not win, at least not by any fair combination of the legal and political concepts that help define that word. The problem is that a clear plurality of Florida's voters went to the polls last year and tried to vote for him, probably by a margin consistent with the 500,000-plus plurality he registered over George W. Bush in the country overall. The latest, most exhaustive, and near-definitive examination of ballots, however, doesn't quite answer the question of what happened to that plurality.
Reilly unravels the Microsoft deal
(11/11/2001)
FOR TOM REILLY, part of whose job as Massachusetts attorney general involves smelling rats, the so-called settlement with Microsoft he was asked to sign off on this month with virtually no notice reeked of rodent.
Stirring up homeland incesecutity
(11/4/2001)
RICHMOND, Va. JUST LIKE in the World Series, Election 2001 is proving to be the Year of the Goat.
Year of the goat looms in elections
(11/4/2001)
RICHMOND, Va. JUST LIKE in the World Series, Election 2001 is proving to be the Year of the Goat.
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