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...rising unemployment, weak stock prices, and a daily drumbeat of low corporate earnings and big layoff announcements, with Cisco and Texas Instruments the latest. There's cutbacks in retail sales, and now housing. The cumulative set of statistics that we've seen lately may very well indicate that there is a recession getting under way right...
...carefully worded letter to the septuagenarian dictators in Beijing was not, as some of the more extreme critics would have it, a “national humiliation.” It made us look weak, yes, to declare that “we are very sorry the entering of China's airspace and the landing did not have verbal clearance,” when the reason that we entered their airspace in the first place was to make an emergency landing after a Chinese fighter smacked our plane in mid-air. But weakness and humiliation are different things...
...this sense, the message being sent by requesting unconditional extradition of Milosevic is one of two different yardsticks, which makes for a very weak imitation of international justice. If international justice is what we are really looking for, then not only should we first allow the Yugoslav judicial system to prosecute Milosevic (carefully following the process and deciding after its conclusions whether further prosecution by the International Criminal Tribunal is necessary) but, more importantly, the U.S. government should reexamine its opposition with regard to the ICC and send out a clear message that international justice is indeed the goal...
...than 1,800 years. Tellingly, early rulers who might have been tempted to "adjust" the site's location did not do so. Says Dan Bahat, for many years Jerusalem's district archaeologist: "There's nothing to prove that this is not the site of the Crucifixion." If this sounds weak to a believer, coming from an archaeologist, it carries significant weight...
...posted a surprising decline, due mostly to the fact that the cost of energy dropped in March by a record 4 percent. What this means is that not only is the economy very weak, there's no inflationary pressures at all. And without inflationary worries, the Fed really has no justification for not stepping in with a rate...