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...embroil the quarrelsome community of economists, raising fears that the victory could lead to a shortage of funds that will slow growth in the U.S. and abroad. With so many countries hungry for capital, say these experts, the demand will drive interest rates up. The increases in turn could choke off investments for new homes, plants and machinery. "This is the first time since the outbreak of World War I that every nation on this planet has a capitalist economic system or a market- oriented economy either in place or about to happen," says David Hale, a senior economist...
...lifelong Boston Celtics fan, I was praying that the cocky Knicks would choke on that 3-2 lead, and was overjoyed when they did. As a lifelong Islanders fan (they are, after all, the only true Long Island team), one of my favorite hockey pastimes is no more. That is, I can no longer chant '1940! 1940!" to indignant--and utterly defenseless--Rangers fans. As a lifelong Mets fan, the Yankees' success is equally painful. Especially because I spent a good part of my youth razzing my pinstripe-worshipping friends about George Steinbrenner gems such as Steve Trout, Steve Kemp...
...effort to choke the Kim regime economically would have to crack down on the traffic between Pyongyang and the liner's sponsor, Chongryun, the secretive 250,000-member General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, which is under the direct control of Pyongyang. The group is at the heart of a shadowy fund-raising effort that sends between $600 million and $1 billion annually to North Korea, most of it for the Kim regime itself. The funds are Pyongyang's biggest source of hard currency. Japanese intelligence says Chongryun also covertly purchases equipment for the North's nuclear and missile...
...Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke him for his influence...
Like the vampires, ghouls, rabid dogs and other monsters that populate his fiction, Stephen King seems practically unstoppable. New novels appear with almost supernatural speed, take a choke hold on the best-seller lists, and are transformed into movies that typically make a quick blitz at the box office before settling into a long, lucrative life on the video shelves. For an impressive array of filmmakers, from Brian De Palma to Rob Reiner, King has made an ideal collaborator: he provides the sprawling, imaginative raw material; they bring the cinematic compression and sometimes (as in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining...