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...after 11 straight cuts and readying the markets for a return to - gasp - inflation watch. Greenspan won't be intervening in this economy again until it's time to slow it down, and the bond markets aren't waiting, pushing up market interest rates on those very fears. The window of opportunity that gave consumers most of their extra 2001 spending power - great mortgage-refinancing deals and low-interest rate loans - is closing fast...
...Internet muckmaker Matt Drudge was. When the movie opened, he ran an item saying it had "completely scrubbed" any gay scenes from Nasar's book. Some thought the tip came from Miramax, but Drudge won't finger his source, saying, with a laugh, "Birds have been singing outside my window." A few weeks ago, he raised the Jewish question. Others tried to trace that tip to Fox, but Drudge says he found it himself when he read the book "and the Jew stuff popped...
...search of the perfect beach. If this sounds like an old-fashioned sex comedy, it is--sexy, for sure, and funny, in wild spurts. But Cuaron's movie, a worldwide hit, also serves as a tour through his convulsive homeland. The gritty life of Mexico occasionally splats on the window of a car whose privileged passengers speed on to their own escape from reality...
It’s surprisingly difficult, getting old. So much of my being a fan has been putting myself in the game, thinking that it could be me some day. But now, the incredibly miniscule window of opportunity I had (I must have had it at some point, right?) is slamming shut. Pete jumped through. I never will...
Infighting among local warlords in the region allowed al-Qaeda to mass there. "We were busy with clashes of power," says Afghan commander Abdul Mateen Hassan Khel, sitting in an office in the provincial capital of Gardez, with 40 Russian tanks rusting outside his window. "Pockets of al-Qaeda from Jalalabad and other places were able to move in with them, so many are there now." Whether or not bin Laden and his top lieutenants are in the region, the known commanders are ripe enough targets. They include Ibrahim Haqqani, whose brother, a Taliban leader sought...