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...time I've punched in the 256th digit, I've become a little testy with Raster and said some rude things to him. I'm not proud of it. Then I hear something that's music to my ears: ``I'm sorry, I didn't understand you,'' Raster chirps. ``Please check your cable connections -- I'm getting some noise on the line...
...Beltway rhetoric pitting Wall Street against Main Street, Wall Street long ago intersected with Main Street. At risk in the region were not only U.S. banks and giant investment firms but mutual funds held by tens of millions of little-guy investors who bet their savings on double-digit yields in emerging markets like Mexico. ``This wasn't about bailing out Wall Street,'' a congressional staff member said of last week's Executive Order, ``but about mutual funds and pension funds, and that means average Americans.'' People, for instance, like Anna Stathas, 76, and Angeliki Palassopoulos...
Even with his single-digit GPA, I can also take pride in the play of the Minuteman's and Hartford Public's Marcus Camby. Besides, inundated with local news coverage, how can I not admire Coach Calipari and his cagers...
...Double-digit losses to Duke--or Stanford, or Michigan, or whomever--would give Harvard a tough lesson, but a lesson nevertheless. One certainly can not argue that a game with another small northeastern college certainly gives the Crimson more help down the road...
Attempts to fine-tune the economy have often misfired. President Jimmy Carter tried to fight double-digit inflation in 1980 by discouraging banks and retailers from making credit-card loans and by appealing to Americans to leave home without their plastic. The tactics worked so well that consumers stopped borrowing and sent the economy into a recession just as Carter sought re- election...