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...succeed Greenspan: The true believers in ?supply-side? economics at the conservative National Review may back President Bush on most issues, but they are no more impressed with the nomination of Bernanke than they are with that of Harriet Miers. Bernanke, they warn, doesn't share some of their basic positions on issues such as taxation. By contrast, curiously enough, Paul Krugman - standard bearer of the Left in national economic debates and often a fierce critic of Greenspan - appears to welcome the nomination of his former Princeton colleague, although he fears that Bernanke's tenure at the White House...
Once Polaroid entered bankruptcy, Moss and her retired co-workers learned a bitter lesson--that they had no say in the security of benefits they had worked all their lives to accumulate. While the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) agreed to make good on most of their basic pensions, the rest of their benefits--notably the ESOP accounts, along with retirement health care and severance packages--were canceled. The retirees, generally well educated and financially savvy, organized to try to win back some of what they had lost by petitioning bankruptcy court, which would decide how to divide...
Peter Huber is the co-author, with Mark Mills, of The Bottomless Well (Basic Books; 214 pages...
...quite that simple. Cash was 6 ft. 2 in. and held his guitar like a long rifle, with his strumming arm draped around the bottom of the body. Phoenix is 5 ft. 8 in. When music supervisor T-Bone Burnett told him his basic mastery was all right but his strumming was all wrong, it took weeks to relearn how to play. There was also the matter of singing. Phoenix has a warbling, slightly nasal voice that needed extensive training to hit Cash's rumbling lows. "He was pretty horrible when he started," says Dan John Miller, leader...
Creating your own winery doesn't require a great deal of expertise or expense. A starter kit that makes five gallons costs about $100, or $4 a finished bottle. The kits come with basic equipment, yeasts, and juice or concentrate from fruit grown in the same places--in California, France, Italy and other wine regions--that professional wineries use. Just follow the directions, and in four to six weeks you can be uncorking wine from your own château or apartment. To move beyond kits to get the whole grape-stomping experience, you have to spend at least an additional...