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...build a limited missile shield, but the Bush Administration has said bluntly that while it's willing to talk over the details, its mind is made up. Disputes are looming about how to rejigger sanctions against Iraq and over which countries should next get into nato. There's a bumper crop of noisy trade issues too, and all of them tread on sensitive domestic toes: bananas, R and D subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, the genetically modified grub Americans are happy to swallow but Europeans denounce as "Frankenfood...
...promised right from the start that there would be no Wednesdays with Morrie. It wasn't going to be a franchise. Although there have been many, many publishers who would love [to publish a sequel]. I've turned down bumper stickers. I've turned down day planners. I've turned down calendars. Bracelets. Refrigerator magnets. I've said no to everything, because this was never supposed to be a commercial endeavor. Somebody came to me last night and said they'd like to do a cruise based on Tuesdays with Morrie. You've got the wrong guy. It's just...
...following the formula. But that would also limit the good he could do. Taylor rules, many economists say, don't work because they are reactive. They don't move rates until inflation picks up. It's like not hitting your brakes until you touch the other guy's bumper. Greenspan's rate cut in August 1998 probably saved the world from financial meltdown. Taylor's rules would have precluded the move. It's seductive to think we could build a Greenspan box, a computer to out-Alan Alan. But monetary policy can't be made in a vacuum...
Brightly colored bumper stickers decorate the narrow entryway. One of the favorites with the customers, he says, is the sticker that reads "Grow your own dope: plant...
...this California? Not exactly. You will find no Road Rage bumper-car ride. No Catastrophe California with floods, earthquakes and forest fires. No halls with animatronic Mansons and O.J.s. This is "California": a dreamland built by Disney Imaginers; a G-rated makeover of the tarnished Golden State; a living movie fantasy--the reel thing...