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...looking at a fundamentally different economy, as the NAPM manufacturing numbers suggest. If the businesses have to lead us out of this thing while consumers take a short break, the corporate bleeding may already be stopping. The patient is wobbly, but it seems he's likely to pull through after all. For three years he's been on the whip end of the economy's wild ride, just missing every twist and turn - why should he do perverted things to the money supply if life is already going on? The rate cuts haven't exactly been the cure...
...Morrow informed us before the dust had settled on Manhattan Island. But what does it mean to "toughen up" and give the "uncivilized" their due when the barbarians are not waiting at the gate but are already among us? To resort to hatred in this crisis is to pull the pin on a hand grenade without having anywhere to throw it. JONATHAN HARTGROVE St. Davids...
...country awash in illegal weapons, violence is inevitably part of the picture. And it isn't restricted to the illiterate and the destitute, those most susceptible to the pull of extremism. Even the sons of some wealthy businessmen are growing beards and joining the jihad against India over the disputed territory of Kashmir, often to the dismay of their secular-leaning families. Others sign up for local wars: more than 100 Pakistanis have been killed in sectarian attacks since the beginning of this year. In recent months, minority Shia professionals, especially doctors, have been targeted for assassination. Doctors are among...
...role, which requires heavy amounts of acting and comic timing for a dancer. His rather feminine body (very apparent in the lack of a costume that Puck is required to wear) did not quite fit, however, with the particularly athletic style of Puck’s choreography. Courtain did pull off some amusing facial expressions and pantomime that attempted to fill in for Shakespeare’s words, but he always seemed about a half-beat off in terms of the character...
...Eberhart, head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the New York Times on Wednesday. "Otherwise, the standing orders have been pushed down to the regional level." All of which means that Maj. Gen. Larry K. Arnold, a two-star at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, can pull the trigger on a potentially dangerous commercial aircraft without even calling his boss Eberhart, much less Bush...