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ALAN GREENSPAN'S OFFICIAL TITLE IS Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. But he functions as something akin to America's economic Prognosticator in Chief. For decades Greenspan, 78, has constantly kept a finger in the air, trying to divine the economic future and determine how best to prepare. Is the economy poised to heat up? Raise interest rates. Is it likely to cool down? Cut them a quarter-point. During his tenure, a period that has stretched over four Presidents and assorted stock-market rises and falls, Greenspan has commanded dozens of interest-rate adjustments. For tens of millions...
...some guns prohibited by the ban could be made legal by eliminating their folding stocks, thus making them less convenient to transport and store but no less deadly. This is akin to allowing umbrellas but prohibiting folding umbrellas. With the exception of a grenade launcher, none of these features substantially increases a weapon’s deadliness; and civilians are already prohibited from owning grenades by the National Firearms Act of 1934. What these five features have in common is not that they are deadly but that they make rifles look more imposing and “assaulty...
With a savvy veteran among his youthful ranks, Jay utilized Donato in a role akin to coaching almost as often as playing. Nominally, he said, a hierarchy remained intact, but the actual state of affairs more closely resembled a pair on almost level footing...
...April's uprising in Fallujah; during a gathering of militants there on April 9, one of his lieutenants called on Muslims outside Iraq to join the fight. As a result, al-Dhari has built support among both Iraqi and foreign insurgents, who believe he may emerge as a figure akin to Taliban leader Mullah Omar...
...Zarqawi's rise in the jihad community. Prior the Iraq war he was a marginal figure in the larger al-Qaeda cluster of militant groups. The invasion and subsequent invasion of Iraq gave him and other insurgents a stage upon which to make their mark as mujahideen heroes, akin to the veterans of the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s. In this video, what is believed to be Zarqawi's voice is heard only once, part of an audio tape he released last month threatening the new U.S.-backed Baghdad government and reinforcing to Islamic extremist recruits...