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...Conventional wisdom labels us "Generation X." "Reality Bites," Hollywood's latest portrayal of us, characterizes us young people as lazy and apathetic. Whereas the students of the sixties rose up in protest when they saw an unjust society around them, conventional wisdom says that our generation is so fed up with it all that we don't even give a damn...
...while, there was resistance from Nussbaum, who wanted the resignation postponed to avoid the appearance that he had been forced out, and from a dwindling number of supporters. However, fed up with Washington and its rough handling of her husband, Nussbaum's wife Toby was relieved to see him leave the job. On Friday afternoon, tellingly, Clinton passed up two opportunities to defend Nussbaum in public. That evening he called his old friend into the Oval Office to discuss how the deed would be done. A reluctant Nussbaum agreed to go. His view, as a senior White House official...
...boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance. Republican Congressman Toby Roth of Wisconsin complained to Greenspan last week, "Many of us feel that you're taking away the punch bowl as the guests are still taking their coats off." But Fed officials liken early moves against inflation to taking away the punch bowl before the party gets out of hand...
Whoever is right will probably be put to a test by further Fed moves. The Clinton Administration, though dedicated to low interest rates, hopes that the rate increases will extend the recovery right into the fall of 1996; it merely expresses hope that the Fed will not raise rates too much. As Roth told Greenspan, "I think all of us in Congress realize that you have more power over the economy than we do." And more than the President...
...Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never met her. I don't know what her voice was like. I am giving feeling to her words. After having so much plot and emotion spoon-fed to them by theater or opera, audiences seem to like having to concentrate on those words and use their imaginations...