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...Princeton and then Harvard Law, has studied or socialized with a lot of these Wall Street types. "I have friends in the industry who think I'm doing the wrong thing," Spitzer says. James Cramer, an old friend who does market commentary for TheStreet.com and other media, is blunter: "Everybody on Wall Street hates this...
...those who were listening last winter when Alan Greenspan called Washington fiscal policy a "blunt instrument," for softening recessions - well, Washington fiscal policymaking doesn't get much blunter than this. Tuesday - twelve weeks to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks and nine since lawmakers promised to act on an economic stimulus package "deliberately but with dispatch" - three members from the House and three from the Senate finally got around a table to try and get something on George W. Bush's desk by, say, Christmas...
...change their ways. The critically acclaimed Williams, whose new CD, Essence, comes out on Lost Highway this week, calls the label "a safety net for artists who might not sell that many records but have a good fan base." Adams, whose terrific CD Gold is due in August, is blunter: "This is a business of whores--it's about how much you can whore yourself out. Well, I'm not pretty enough to do that. So I've got to go with the label with brains, and that's what this label...
...Last week he was blunter, and so were his foes. "We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first, are the people who live in America," Bush said. "That's my priority." Swedish Environment Minister Kjell Larsson said the Administration's move "sabotages many years of hard work;" his French counterpart, Dominique Voynet, called the U.S. position "suicidal and irresponsible;" and Margot Wallström, the European Union's Commissioner for the environment, seemed to hint at the possibility of calling for sanctions against the E.U.'s biggest trading partner. "This isn't some marginal environmental...
...hogs can be hard to control. Bush summoned CEOs to the White House last week and warned that he would fight any move toward business-tax breaks. "We should focus on people first, not corporations," he said. He delivered an even blunter message to congressmen at the White House Thursday night: "I'm not going to let the tax plan get pencil-whipped." Brave words, but few in Washington believe them. Corporations gave $134 million in soft money to the Republicans to get Bush elected. Their chiefs expect more than White House cuff links in return...