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NEWT GINGRICH IS FED UP WITH ALL THE FINGER pointing. He is tired, he says, of people blaming their problems on one another or on society at large--rather than taking responsibility for their fates and charging ahead with a can-do attitude. In his new book, To Renew America, Gingrich writes, "When confronted with a problem, a true American doesn't ask, 'Who can I blame this...
...fed up--to put it mildly--with students who consider the Yard no more than a giant and exceedingly well-decorated ashtray. I have lost all sympathy with those who insist, between smoke rings, that denying them their prerogative to drag constitutes an infringement on their fundamental rights. I will hear no more talmudic debates on whether the founders of this nation meant to ensure the ability of each and every last citizen to poison themselves as they...
...Fairy is coming to pick up after them shortly. My common room would not reek of the smoke that drifts up from the courtyard where I live. I would be able to walk past the Widener steps, the doors of Sever Hall and numerous other areas which are, technically, fed by an oxygenated atmosphere, without my lungs going into screaming shutdown. And everyone who lives, works and tries to study in the Yard will share these benefits...
...working: while at least two major banks reduced their consumer loan rates to 8.75 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 48 points to close at another record 4,664. But Ratan notes that the markets were counting on the move: "Ordinarily, the impact of Fed cuts is not felt for 16 to 18 months.But longterm interest rates have dropped in anticipation of the Fed easing up, and with this move, they'll stay down. That should give the economy the stimulus it needs." Many economists, seizing on rosier reports last week, had expected the Fed governors...
Hours before the Fed announcement, the Commerce Department reported that its Index of Leading Indicators -- the chief forecasting gauge of future economic activity -- fell for a fourth straight month in May. (That hasn't happened since the last recession in 1990.) Three or more consecutive declines often signal an impending recession...