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...when a crash starts, what should the press say? Which analysts -- pessimists or optimists -- should they interview? Because a heavily invested America will know about it instantly. And with the sound of a thousand talking heads buzzing in its collective ear, the next Great Depression (or the next harmless Black Monday of 1987) could be decided by a coin flip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing and the Press: Who's Watching the Herd? | 10/28/1998 | See Source »

...outside forces, particularly American. What better way to enlarge this human resource pool than an apparently (to populations of such countries) unprovoked attack by the United States? The anti-American demonstrations that rocked the Islamic world from Bangladesh to Egypt following the air strikes serve as only the most harmless manifestation of the emotions that may lead droves of young people to join terrorist organizations...

Author: By Dan Epstein, | Title: Foggy Thinking in Foggy Bottom | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...well engineered sounds, but also by the way it has always thumbed its nose at the conventional standards of society. While the ideas that gangsta rap preaches, such as cop killing, are far from condonable, they are presented with such obvious showmanship that ultimately the music is simply a harmless, creative outlet. Although gangsta rap is clearly fading, there are still several bright spots remaining, one being the West Coast trio of Cypress Hill...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: High Hopes for Rap | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...council is, at best, the institution that makes Fly-By lunches and Core reform possible. At worst, it is a harmless debating society. So why does The Crimson have so much animosity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Biased Against U.C. | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...unemployed populi who glare suspiciously at them; nor am I alluding to eyeball-glazing newspaper business features led by headlines like, "Whither Textiles?" I'm referring to what happened the last time there was a burp in the economy, in the early 1990s: the transformation of harmless activism into foot-stomping fanatacism...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Falling Dow, Rising Awareness | 9/23/1998 | See Source »

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