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Warren says that whether policy groups created last spring to discuss and produce a brief on a specific political debate “can remain non-partisan is yet to be seen...
...book finally appeared in Germany, and this year it was reissued in Britain. And what of Kressmann Taylor? As explained in an afterword by her son Charles, she was born Kathrine Kressmann in Portland, Oregon, a wife, mother and contributor to small U.S. magazines. With Address Unknown, she enjoyed brief notoriety as "the woman who jolted America," then lived quietly as a college professor in Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania. Rediscovered after Address Unknown was reissued, Taylor spent a happy year signing copies and giving interviews until her death in 1996 at age 93. Her slim, deft, 64-year-old attempt to stir...
...officer was dispatched to 17 Quincy St. where a person was reportedly attempting to break into a vehicle. After a brief investigation, the officer learned that the suspect had confused the vehicle with...
...this feels like dEja vu, it should. The last banking scare arose only in March. Then, a brief uptick in stock prices allowed banks to report better than expected financial results. But the worries have returned with the recent souring of the global economy. The bank sector's bad loans have increased relentlessly, growing 64% to $302 billion between March 1997 and September 2001. Despite its promises to overhaul the financial system, and hints last week of another economy-boosting package, the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has done nothing substantive to alleviate the problem. Just last week...
...woes of Japan's banking sector have been painfully obvious for years. But Ishihara's public vote of no confidence served notice that, after a brief period of relative calm, the financial system of the world's second largest economy has slipped back into crisis mode. Days earlier, the government released economic growth data that indicated recovery is even farther off than expected, thanks in part to economic weakness in the U.S., a key export market. Of more immediate concern: a sharp stock market decline?fueled by plunging bank stocks?sent the Nikkei average to its lowest level...