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...inspiring show of American women in the Olympics last year, attributable to the passage of Title IX 25 years ago, has fed the W.N.B.A. in the same way that Teresa Weatherspoon (T-Spoon) feeds Sophia Witherspoon (Serving Spoon) for the New York Liberty. Indeed, these are halcyon days for women's sports. Tennis star Martina Hingis has won more money so far this year than such athletes as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras. The Women's Professional Fastpitch softball league, concentrated in the Southeast, has been pulling in fans and TV viewers in surprising numbers. Two new magazines (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE England led the Industrial Revolution and fed it with natural resources from its colonies. The pace of technological innovation was extraordinary and included the steam engine and the Bessemer steel converter. England produced more steel, locomotives and textiles than anyone else. Its economy grew fourfold from 1851 to 1911. Since the British pound was tied to gold, it was a global currency and helped make England the center of international banking...
...their relatives with long-lost money. The lists are an unprecedented step for the famously discreet Swiss banks, and certainly a nifty PR move, coinciding today with the Swiss Bankers Association's announcement that it had found $15 million more that may have belonged to Holocaust victims. Ex-Fed chairman Paul Volcker, who heads an international body charged with tracking missing Holocaust assets, says a new list to be released in October will name not only foreign depositors but Swiss nationals who may have acted as agents for Holocaust victims or even Nazis. "I think there could be a large...
...Congress. "There was nothing like the 'irrational exuberance' line. Things are going well, and he could have killed it. But he didn't." Not that the Grinch of Wall Street has suddenly gone pie-eyed over the invincible new economic order. Bristling slightly, he insisted the Fed "is not, as some commentators have suggested, involved in an experiment that deliberately prods the economy to see how far and how fast it can grow," Greenspan said. "The costs of a failed experiment would be much too burdensome for too many of our citizens." Does that mean the Fed will raise rates...
...Fed hasn't touched rates since March. Has Greenspan become a believer? The ever-rational Fed chairman delivers his midyear report to Congress Tuesday...