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DIED. Louis Rukeyser, 73, trailblazing stock market broadcaster whose lively analysis and open disdain for professional investors made Wall Street Week, the low-tech TV program he hosted for 32 years, one of PBS's best-rated shows; of multiple myeloma, a rare bone cancer; in Greenwich, Conn. With his tailored suits and wry delivery, Rukeyser became an unlikely celebrity from the world of economics, and PEOPLE magazine called him "the dismal science's only sex symbol." After PBS replaced him on the show in 2002, he hosted a CNBC program until failing health forced him to retire...
...decision to forgo a dependable source of the stimulant because it wasn’t “healthy” belies or complicates Rick’s outwardly blasé attitude towards the drug. Perhaps for all his apparent disdain for the disorder, Rick fears the dangers of their all-too-attractive medications...
...Maoists built a mini-state in the mountains based on torture, execution and extortion. But Gyanendra did not live up to his pledges. Instead, he locked up thousands of politicians, human-rights activists, journalists and students, while doing little to stop the Maoists. He almost reveled in his disdain for public opinion-H.M. KING GYANENDRA DOES NOT SEEK CHEAP POPULARITY, reads a propaganda billboard in central Kathmandu. Last fall the opposition parties entered into a loose alliance with the Maoists and began a program of mass protests as the rebels enforced national strikes, a campaign they planned to climax...
...visit of Condi Rice and Jack Straw to Baghdad may have sounded the death knell on the candidacy of Ibrahim Jaafari for a second term as prime minister. Rice made clear the U.S. disdain for a second Jaafari term, saying Iraq needed a leader who could build a national unity coalition, which the incumbent had failed to do. With the Kurds and Sunnis already committed to reject Jaafari's nomination, the Rice visit seemed to embolden even the prime minister's Shi'ite rivals: For the first time, the largest faction of Jaafari's Shi'ite alliance, the Supreme Council...
...other moniker, "the Chief," passes to Bolten, 51, a CIA agent's son and former investment banker who has a fancier rsum, a wry humor, less disdain for the press and more interest in policy. As policy director of George W. Bush's 2000 campaign and his first deputy chief of staff for policy, Bolten is steeped in the current system. In meetings, he often whips out a giant calculator to show the price when, as an aide put it, "someone wants to save a continent from malaria." He's self-assured enough that he has been known...