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...forefront of a Harvard defense that just won't quit. Gunther is still sitting atop the Ivy League standings with a .902 save percentage and a 0.44 goals against average. Larson, a perennial All-Ivy candidate, has proven time and time again to be an invaluable asset to both the Crimson's defensive and offensive play...
This time, it seems, he was warning us about irrational panic. "Greenspan knew about the Producer Price Index numbers ahead of time," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl, referring to the big scary inflation number that ? along with Alan Greenspan?s own Thursday night speech about an "asset bubble" ? threw the markets into an early-morning tailspin Friday. "He warned about wild fluctuations because he knew how the market would react to the bad news about producer prices, and his role is to warn investors that an adjustment in stock prices could come quickly...
...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 are still headed for a tepid autumn overall as Y2K uncertainties loom larger and larger. But the Fed chairman also knows how this market loves to panic about numbers, and he wants everybody to just calm...
...Calif.; Sonny Bono rose from washed-up singer to Palm Springs mayor to congressman; and Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota with little more on his C.V. than the WWF Intercontinental wrestling championship and a few Schwarzenegger-movie cameos. Mere fame, however, appears to be an inadequate campaign asset for those aspiring to the presidency, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. For instance, in September, Donald Trump, who was then only rumored to be mulling a Reform party presidential run, was viewed unfavorably by 47 percent of Americans. This month, Trump ? perhaps the most credible of the crop...
...just another down-at-heel ex-prodigy, so poor she didn't even own a cello. Then she wandered into an open call at New York City's Ford Modeling Agency, where the fact that she looks like a cross between Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman was considered an asset, not a distraction. Now Kotova, who turns 28 this month, is off the runways and back onstage, touring the U.S. and promoting her self-titled debut CD on Philips Classics. It is a collection of juicy romantic encores by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov, Faure and Kotova, whose compositions include...