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There was never much doubt that George Bush would reappoint Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to a second four-year term. The only question was when. Last week, just six hours after he hinted he was in no hurry to do it, Bush renominated the Fed chief. Said the President: "The respect that Alan Greenspan has in the world and in this country, particularly in financial marketplaces, is unparalleled...
Bush, who rarely does anything until the last moment, had been stalling partly to keep pressure on the Fed to lower interest rates and thereby give the nascent recovery a gentle nudge. But the delay was starting to send shivers through financial markets, which have applauded Greenspan's anti- inflationary policies and dread the idea of an unknown replacement. Even so, Bush's subtle hint may have worked. In early July, Greenspan scored a point for economic stimulation by prevailing over anti-inflation zealots on the Fed who wanted to lower the targets for growth in the U.S. money supply...
...Fed up with having their profits pilfered, musicians are striking back with the weapon they know best -- their own music. Next week Zappa will kick off his "Beat the Boots!" campaign with the release of a 10-album Bootleg Box of his own music that had been bootlegged. Says Zappa: "I think it's up to artists to do whatever they can to stand up for their rights...
...nearly endless ways, thus altering the image. To change the T-1000 from a robot to its human form, ILM employed a process nicknamed Morph, as in metamorphosis, first developed in 1988 for the film Willow. Footage of the robot and footage of actor Robert Patrick were coded and fed into the computer, which blended one into the other. The illusion of walking through steel bars was created by another pioneering method that ILM technicians have dubbed "Make Sticky." Footage of Patrick walking unimpeded down a corridor was layered over a computer-enhanced three-dimensional image. As the computer image...
...seldom had to go that long. Ten years after the Revolution, there was Shay's Rebellion, in which poor farmers challenged the new Republic's monied elite. In the 1820s and '30s, there was the Workingmen's Movement, pitted against the evils of "kingcraft, priestcraft and lawyercraft." That fed into the abolition movement, which in turn helped launch the women's suffrage movement in 1848. Near the turn of the century, there was the middle-class Progressive Movement for civic reform and a near insurrection by the new industrial working class. In our own time we've seen fresh rebellions...