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Recent commencement speakers include Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan; Mary Robinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland; U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright; Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health; Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, and Vice President Al Gore...
...Baumohl, are among the most interest-sensitive components of the economy, and tend to be a particularly prescient overall financial indicator. "When interest rates go up, as they have been," says Baumohl, "the first sectors to register a slowdown are car and housing purchases." In other words, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's penchant for quarter-point hikes may have finally eased the American public's seemingly insatiable taste for big-ticket items like new real estate. And this, despite its overtones of recession, says Baumohl, can be seen as very good news: The Federal Reserve may be able...
Crimson manager and backup right fielder, junior Alan E. Wirzbicki, who had only four errors over the two games, said the weekend boded well for the rest of the season...
...just how does it work? Well, let's start with a simple notion: news matters. When Alan Greenspan raises interest rates, as he has been doing for nearly a year, interest-paying investments like bonds and even scorned bank CDs siphon dollars from the stock market--and stocks become less attractive. When the government wins big in a court case that could bust up one of the most valuable companies in the most valuable industry in the world, as happened in the Microsoft trial last week, it breeds uncertainty--and stocks become less attractive. When the market's most credible...
...inspiration for a screenwriter and aspiring filmmaker like me. In the new millennium, the necessity of the old "play the Hollywood game" studio system will diminish, and those with initiative, focus and talent will come to the forefront of the industry by being provocative and making things happen themselves. ALAN ROGER CURRIE Beverly Hills, Calif...