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Alan Greenspan shouldn't be surprised if perfect strangers insist on buying him a beer. Widely credited with being the architect of the most sustained growth cycle in the history of the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve chairman on Tuesday welcomed the record-making 107th month of robust economic health. It's not only its length, of course, that has been remarkable. The boom, marked by rising income, skyrocketing consumer confidence and general expansion, has also remained notably unmarred by the specter of inflation. Wages have escaped the pressure usually placed on them by a booming economy, with increased productivity...
...Germans contemplate their political future with the opposition Christian Democratic Union in meltdown mode over a campaign-funding scandal, it's not surprising that attention has begun to turn to possible alternative leaders. Wolfgang Schauble, 57, the party chairman, offered to resign last week but was overruled by the party leadership...
Perhaps the leading candidate to replace Schauble at the moment is Christian Wulff, 40, an attorney who is the party's deputy chairman. Wulff is telegenic and one of the leaders of the "Jungen Wilden," the Young Wild Ones, a group of up-and-coming, fortysomething local politicians in the C.D.U. Wulff was an early critic of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, even trying to block Kohl from running for a fifth term in 1998. "The C.D.U. does not accept that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name...
...stand. Why Gore? Because he helps control up to $500,000 worth of Oxy stock inherited from his father AL GORE SR., a longtime Occidental board member. Those shares could be worth a lot more if Oxy strikes it rich in Colombia; activists also note that Occidental's chairman, RAY IRANI, gave Democrats $100,000 shortly after he spent the night in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. The executive director of the Sierra Club, among others, wrote the environmentally conscious Gore about the U'Wa months ago, but the Veep never penned a reply. Perhaps this week...
...door of the sumptuous house the family had settled into just the year before, joining a group that included two across-the-lane neighbors, Thomas Skakel, 17, and his 15-year-old brother Michael. If the Moxleys were well off, the Skakels were Greenwich royalty. Rushton Skakel was chairman of Great Lakes Carbon, one of the world's largest privately held companies. In a union of money, power and more money, Skakel's sister Ethel had married Bobby Kennedy in 1950, making Rushton's seven children Kennedy cousins. Martha Moxley, pretty, vivacious and popular, became part of their crowd. (Later...