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...pursue those responsible for planning such attacks - an ominous warning in light of Tuesday's assassination of a lieutenant colonel in Yasser Arafat's security detail in an Israeli helicopter attack. Even more ominous, perhaps, was the sense that Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a new downward spiral of violent conflict...
...President Bill Clinton may have "defined deviance downward," as Pat Moynihan said, or he may turn out to have defined tolerance upward. But one thing the historians will not argue about is that he raised our expectations of what the president of the United States should do for our eyelids...
Unlike the electricity squeeze, the tight market for gas has less to do with misguided government than with classic boom-and-bust economics. In the late '90s, as the price of gas mirrored oil's downward spiral, few banks or drillers were willing to risk the capital to hunt for a practically worthless commodity. Now that the price has rebounded, the West Texas oil patch is hopping, with more rigs and prospectors hunting for gas than since...
...grand scale, that's not so bad. A do-nothing Congress won't blow the budget surplus, leaving it for debt repayment, which would put downward pressure on interest rates and provide a backdoor tax cut. That's the gridlock benefit you hear so much about from Wall Street. But it's a mistake to think nothing will happen, especially if Bush prevails. He ran on the promise of a broad tax cut. "He has to deliver something," says political analyst Andy Laperriere at ISI Group...
...modest conclusion of the novel ("This book is dedicated to humanity"), Houellebecq constantly reminds his reader that he has bigger fish to fry than individual characters. Set in the more enlightened near future, The Elementary Particles aims for no less than a complete mapping-out of Western society's downward trajectory in the second half of the 20th century...