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ENGAGED. ANDREA MITCHELL, 50, NBC News correspondent, and ALAN GREENSPAN, 70, Federal Reserve chairman; after 12 years of dating. Mitchell told the New York Times it was "rational exuberance" that led to Greenspan's proposal, alluding to a pronouncement by the Fed chairman that caused world stock markets to tumble. They plan to wed in the spring...
Fortunately, she can be lured back to film for the right director. While on location in Newfoundland with Alan Rudolph for Afterglow, she took the plight of the local Inuit people to heart and is now campaigning on their behalf. An inveterate lefty, she plans to leave Britain for somewhere like-minded, France or Spain. "I won't see my own history being dismantled in front of my own eyes...
...sharp run-up in energy prices is "an accident waiting to happen," Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday. That's not the sound of a central banker about to start sitting on his thumbs. The Fed has been raising short-term rates for a couple years-from a fed funds rate of 1% to 3.75%. Economists expect him to keep boosting the benchmark rate to about 4.5% next year...
...ALAN MOORE & DAVE GIBBONS...
...another idea, favored by Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., would open the door even wider. By his definition, any object massive enough for gravity to squeeze into a spherical shape is a planet--unless the object orbits a bigger planet, of course. Otherwise, dozens of moons would have to be reclassified as planets. "Defining planets by size is purely arbitrary," agrees Marsden, who likes Stern's idea. "The Pluto-crats want to cut things off there, but it's absurd to say that an object 2,000 km across is a planet...