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Though Republican advisers to the White House have pushed for a voice with credibility on Wall Street, no new names have surfaced to fill any vacancies. Secretary O'Neill has survived his numerous verbal blunders and is likely to stay, but in the background. Aides say Commerce Secretary Don Evans will step up to become the public voice of the economic team, but that's a prediction they have been making for months, and it has yet to happen. "The President really wants it," says a top official, "but it's not that easy to do." The White House tried...
Yellow is clearly this season’s color of choice, but the normally cheery hue takes on gruesome overtones in this ill-conceived ad. The poster’s central image of a black Jewish star on a solid yellow background cannot help but evoke memories of the dreaded armbands worn by Jews in Nazi-era Europe. Such associations must surely have been unintended by the “Harvard Students for Israel,” but the comp ad’s blazing slogan gives the thoughtful viewer pause. Did the Zionist organization mean to make light...
...encore, red confetti poured down and giant lips kissed the audience goodbye from the background monitor. Another promising tour had begun. Personally, I felt gratified. Seeing the Rolling Stones live was one of the things I wanted to do before I died. Or rather, before they...
Although the trauma of last Sept. 11 has faded into the background, Bush has not loosened his stranglehold on public discourse. With his sights set on Saddam, he would prefer not to deal with pesky questions about double standards or the murky precedent that a U.S. invasion of Iraq would set. Stifling dissent may be harder now than it was some months ago, when challenges to patriotism could gag even the biggest mouths. But then again, Iraq is much closer to Bush’s heart...
Salt intake has long been connected to high blood pressure in adults. This study is unique because it advances the idea that through certain risk factors, such as diet and family background, hypertension can be predicted in infants and children...