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...What's at stake...
What's at stake can be seen clearly at St. Adalbert's School, on a dreary back street in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood--a precinct seldom visited by snowplows, where many residents work at low-wage jobs or are unemployed. Yet students at St. Adalbert's sport crisp uniforms and each morning recite the Lord's Prayer together. Discipline is tight; the courses are rigorous. It's not hard to see why so many parents view this place--and the voucher program that has brought their kids to it--as a lifeline...
...could he also head off dreaded inflation by targeting runaway stock prices in a bull market? These are provocative questions that take on added weight in America's newfound equity culture. Half of all households now directly own stock or stock mutual funds. We all have a stake in whether the Greenspan Fed has reinterpreted its central charter to include managing the stock market as a means of managing inflation...
...stark choice between Sharon, an arch-hawk nicknamed "The Bulldozer," and Barak, skeptical doves will probably follow Meretz's lead and back the prime minister. Despite Sharon's substantial lead in the polls, the election remains too close to call: Many of the smaller parties have no direct stake in an election exclusively for the post of prime minister, and even if their supporters answer pollsters' questions, they may not actually make it to the polls on election day. But after harsh police action against Israeli-Arabs protesting in support of Palestinians earlier this year, Barak will be unable...
President Putin is in Cuba supposedly to talk about trade. But given the symbolic place of the communist island in U.S.-Russian relations, surely there's got to be more than trade at stake...