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...Bernanke utters is treated as Delphic. "The U.S. economy appears to be in a period of transition," he told Congress, with the robust growth of the past three years moderating, which in turn should help keep inflation in check. The stock market rallied, anticipating an end--if not in August, then perhaps in Septemberto the two-year cycle of interest-rate rises...
...perk of owning a media empire is that you can use it to squash pesky rumors about your sexuality. In the August issue of O, which is about friendship, OPRAH WINFREY, right, and her best friend, O editor GAYLE KING, far right, responded to gossip that they share more than aha moments. "I understand why people think we're gay," says the talk-show host. "I get why people have to label it--how can you be this close without it being sexual?" So that's over, and now everyone can go back to not thinking about Oprah in that...
...Bush himself, he is curtailing his traditional August working vacation at the ranch so that he can barnstorm before the midterm elections. Their outlook thus far seems so ominous for the G.O.P. that one Presidential adviser wants Bush to beef up his counsel's office for the tangle of investigations that a Democrat-controlled House might pursue...
...then Mickey Spillane, who died this week at 88, was not your typical novelist. He had the burly look of a longshoreman; his face was meaty, like his prose style. And Mickey - that's a name to put in a cartoon, not on august hard covers. He also slipped a Mickey to the image of the serious fiction writer, showing a brisk contempt for the elevated anguish of creating literature. In just five years, between 1947 and 1952, he served up seven novels: I, the Jury; My Gun Is Quick; Vengeance Is Mine!; One Lonely Night; The Big Kill; Kiss...
Gross wrote in a July 13 e-mail sent only to College administrators and House Masters that O’Brien will take a “personal leave of absence” beginning on August 1—exactly two years after she first took up her post as deputy dean of the College. Gross announced that she will maintain her position as the co-Master of Currier House...