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...Crimson’s sixth straight over the Big Green, matching its best stretch against its early-season Ivy foe since...
Classic recessions start with the Fed fearing inflation and aggressively raising interest rates to choke off excess business investment. They end with the Fed defeating the inflation foe and slowly cutting rates again. This one started with inflation practically nil and the Fed in neutral. With no inflation threat--indeed, with deflation the bigger worry in some camps--the Fed has been aggressively cutting rates. Those cuts are working to stimulate the economy, but not in the usual...
...recognized collectively: the citizens and the city of New York ("I know that it isn't a person - it's a persona" ... "Often touted as the icon of the impersonal, New York showed the world what it truly means to be human"); its rescue workers, police and firemen (" No foe could ever hope to vanquish a nation capable of producing men and women such as these"); the victims of the attack ("They showed us the American spirit even as they died: bravery, love of family, selflessness") and the typical American ("the average, everyday, ordinary person who gives without question...
...Demonizing a foe and then failing to destroy him can be bad for a nation's morale - witness Saddam Hussein still cropping up on Washington's to-do list a decade after the U.S. marshalled a half million allied troops to confront him in Kuwait. Sure, bin Laden may yet turn up among the corpses or the stragglers of Tora Bora. But if he doesn't, he will have scored a significant short-term propaganda victory and created some major political headaches for Washington...
...will fan out to other Afghan cities. But in Bonn, the negotiators were in such haste to secure an agreement that they never spelled out who would be empowered to disarm the Afghan combatants. "We need peace and security," Karzai says. "That's our first priority." Everyone, friend and foe alike, will be watching now to see if he is the man who can deliver them...