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Call it the Guitar-soloasaurus - scientists name a dinosaur after Dire Straits' ex-leader...
While the Cornell victory was important, the loss to Columbia puts the Crimson's post-season hopes in jeopardy only six games in to the Ivy season. Having lost to Yale at home before the break, and facing Penn and Princeton this weekend, the Crimson faces some dire straits...
When George W. Bush finally pulled his presidency from the Florida swamp, the predictions were dire. Bush would be a man without a mandate, unable to move his agenda through the divided Senate. His plan to use Texas charm to win friends and influence lawmakers was dismissed as laughable, a rube's view of the capital...
...gets blamed if those six tightenings ending last spring put the boom into convulsions, but the Fed chairman figures that a slowdown would be much easier to bear - and modulate - than, say, stagflation, and that he can always slash short-term rates in January and beyond if things look dire...
...markets, for whom things look plenty dire right now, are expecting just that, and have already begun the process of pricing in a quarter-point cut. That'll help share prices in January, which could help raise consumer spirits and eventually get businesses borrowing and growing again. But the effects of rate cuts - and any tax cut Bush can slide through - will be strictly psychological for the better part of a year...