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DIED. JOHN PHILLIPS, 65, singer-songwriter who founded '60s folk-rock band the Mamas and the Papas and wrote its biggest hits, including California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday; in Los Angeles. Formed in 1965, the group had six Top 10 hits in three years. Phillips, right, who died of heart failure, had overcome years of drug and alcohol abuse. DIED. DAVID MCTAGGART, 69, who co-founded the environmental pressure group Greenpeace and built it into a worldwide movement, killed in a car crash; in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, animation pioneer whose 50-year partnership with Joseph...
...Morgan Stanley, took the system to task in his research report: "It is clear that the profession has some serious work to do to rebuild confidence," he wrote, urging analysts to be "intellectually honest and independent." My favorite criticism comes from the stock jocks on CNBC--the very same folks who made stars of bulls like Blodget and Meeker by putting them on the air day after day while the bubble was still bloating. These watchdogs now insist that analysts answer for their miscalls. O.K., but who's insisting that the TV folk answer for airing this stuff ad nauseam...
...right size," and the business lobby (no doubt receiving a promise to be first in line next time around) dutifully returned to the sidelines empty-handed. And so the White House has been leery of reopening negotiations on the tax cut's size and shape, for fear the corporate folk will come rushing back...
...inclined to give the relentlessly self-absorbed Sharon right back were she not so endearingly funny, all the more so because she is unaware of her own wackiness; she cracks jokes without getting them. Sharon dates her search for God to 1974 when, as a 20-year-old folk dancer expelled as a sophomore from Boston University for various convincing reasons, she fetches up in Honolulu with her boyfriend Gary, 35, a "Vietnam-era" graduate student who promptly ditches her, leaving her stuck with the hotel bill. She can't afford to go back to the mainland...
Earnhardt stood alone as the genuine article--a no-nonsense American folk hero for the workingman. He raced hard and died doing what he loved. GLENN RILEY Cincinnati, Ohio...