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First came the boom. Ed Cable heard it driving home Nov. 21 on a lonely stretch of highway about eight miles south of downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was loud enough to make him hit the brakes. Then came the explosion--"right beside me," Cable says. "I immediately got off the highway and got out of the car." Shaken, the retired corrections officer saw the driver's-side window of his minivan was splintered and the roof had a hole "the size of a 50¢ piece." A policeman stopped to help, but Cable, 53, says he could not convince him that...
...consumer confidence is at its highest level in more than a year. Deficits are bad, White House aides concede, but slavish concern about them--which they associate with Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin--would have kept them from passing the tax cuts they argue are fueling the current boom. "All the fears of Rubinomics have not come to pass," says a senior White House official...
Gonzalez, 38, is a floppy-haired former public defender who once played bass in a punk rock band and doesn't own a watch or a car. Elected to the city's board of supervisors during the dotcom boom, Gonzalez (who was a Democrat until he became disillusioned with the party's campaign tactics in 2000) helped lead the charge against upscale real estate development to house the high-tech rich. But he still manages to charm campaign contributions out of two of the city's biggest developers. He promises to make San Francisco a "laboratory for what government will...
...radio hosts divided by beliefs but united by a common employer: the burgeoning American anger industry. It's a multimedia platform--TV and radio shows stoking book sales and vice versa--that grew strong through the '90s with the rise of Rush Limbaugh and the conservative-publishing boom. But the monologue has become--O.K., not a dialogue, but at least two angry monologues, as liberals have discovered the cathartic power of mass-market name calling. (Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? is No. 1 on the Nov. 23 New York Times best-seller list, with Franken...
Clothing retailers appeared especially upbeat about the coming shopping boom...