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...last line of defense for the U.S. economy is the Federal Reserve, which has the power to cut interest rates if the expansion falters. But Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who warned of "irrational exuberance" in stock prices as far back as December 1996, remains more concerned about the threat of inflation than about the danger of a recession or a market collapse. Just last month Greenspan warned that plunging exports to Asia had done little to ease a growing U.S. labor shortage...
...NASA says. Not everyone in the space community agrees. Alex Roland, a former NASA historian and chairman of the Duke University history department, has been outspokenly skeptical of Glenn's mission, questioning its scientific value and dismissing it as a trivial or even foolish use of NASA's scarce resources. If critics like Roland are right, the mission's science is merely a fig leaf. If it's a fig leaf, what is it covering? "This space flight is the same as the first one," says John Pike, director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists...
...piece on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its new chairman, Julian Bond [DIVIDING LINE, July 27], Jack E. White was very supportive of Bond's leadership. But Bond's devilishly elegant plan of affirmative action is primarily for the black fortunate, the black elite. There is little benefit in it for anyone but a group of handpicked nonwhites and middle-class white women. Bond's affirmative action works best for professionals and those in the middle class. He suggests that the black community can be developed without a preference for its most needy element. This...
...thing to boo and hiss, as many legislators did, when Palestinian Authority Chairman YASSER ARAFAT acceded to demands by reform-minded members of the Legislative Council and presented a so-called new Cabinet last week. But Minister HANAN MIKHAIL-ASHRAWI, prominent spokeswoman for the Palestinian cause, made her protest sting by loudly quitting the Cabinet. Disgusted at Arafat's failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio...
WASHINGTON: Get ready for the Bill Gates Show. In one of the most bizarre twists of the antitrust action against Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson agreed Tuesday to turn Chairman Bill's forthcoming deposition into a spectator sport. Lawyers for several media companies had resurrected an obscure turn-of-the-century law that says such occasions "shall be open to the public as freely as are trials in open court." And try as he might to ignore it, Jackson had to admit that the statute still stands...