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...rather too fine distinction." But he spends even less time than Woodward probing the matter and then mysteriously concludes that such a strategy wouldn't work anyway. Millions of people have come to believe that Greenspan purposely moves stock prices. They're wrong, according to both authors. Yet we get no proof...
...Maestro, an often tedious recounting of every Fed adjustment in short-term interest rates since 1987, we come to appreciate how brilliantly Greenspan manages the Federal Open Market Committee--the body that regularly meets and votes to set interest rates. We also get a revealing taste of the heavy politics involved and how Greenspan quietly and effectively shuffles through the most powerful ranks in Washington. Woodward, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, makes a case for Greenspan's almost single-handedly engineering the prosperous 1990s. And his assertion that Greenspan sometimes literally gets a pain in the stomach...
...Rand, and then to his advisory role with Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable Greenspan-speak: "I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant," the Fed chief once told Congress. Where Martin lets us down is in detailing recent events that mark Greenspan...
...Scene In Miami," about the Republican-backed protests against recounts [ELECTION 2000, Dec. 4], your writer Tim Padgett attempted to make a story where there was none. The whole article had an indignant tone, castigating the G.O.P. for orchestrating a protest. As if demonstrations aren't always staged. Get over your sanctimony. Parties organize--that's their purpose. NICK SLEPKO Seattle...
Sullivan doesn't get it. Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena Williams and shortstop Alex Rodriguez have unique talents and skills. So much so that people willingly pay to see them in action and buy the products they endorse. If Sullivan doesn't think the athletes should be allowed to bargain for their compensation because they "get to play," then who should get the extra money that a Tiger or an A-Rod attracts? The team owner or league president in the corner office who has none of the talents or skills that fans pay to see? STEPHEN VELIE Norwalk, Conn...