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...predicted that a quarter of the world's population will live in abject poverty by 2012, a condition he said will be precipitated by urban migration, environmental destruction, infectious disease outbreaks and concentration of wealth in fewer hands...
...response to a torrent of protest from reporters and editors, publisher Kathryn Downing, 46, who stepped into the job last June, made an extraordinary--some called it "abject"--apology. After taking questions at a two-hour staff meeting on Oct. 28, she admitted that she and her staff had failed to understand the ethics involved. "It was the angriest, most confrontational meeting I've ever seen at the paper in my 31 years," says David Shaw, the paper's media reporter. "People felt betrayed, embarrassed, ashamed, angry. What happened was wrong. It's Journalism 101." Shaw will get to draw...
...year issue to a new two-year high of 6.36 percent at one point. (When no one wants a bond because expected inflation would eat into its long-term value, its yield ?- the payoff for putting your money in it ?- goes up in response; 6.36 is about equivalent to abject begging.) But even that spike was showing signs of flattening as a correction of the correction set in. None of this changes the long-term outlook; Greenspan is still genuinely worried about an "asset bubble" (although he?ll never tell how many points make a bubble), and the markets...
...peace progress this summer. Like everyone else here, I excitedly look forward towards a speedy withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, a meeting between Ehud Barak and Syrian President Hafez Assad and the declaration of a Palestinian state. But this excitement is tempered by the reality of the abject living conditions, which will probably prove the biggest obstacle to any real peace, especially in the hearts and minds of the people...
...advisers were feeling swell about the letter, because for the first time, as one says, "she made a judgment that the dictates of New York politics were going to structure what she did. She crossed a Rubicon." In other words, she had the good sense to notch her first abject pander to a New York interest group. (She then wasted no time notching her second, coming out in favor of price supports for New York dairy farmers.) Pop the corks...