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...cost of this tax cut will come home to roost in the out-years. Government will have to borrow to spend or add new taxes to get out of the mess brought about by brainless political inertia. RAND KNOX San Rafael, Calif...
...Wexler was the first woman to win the Knox fellowship, an award that paid for postgraduate study in England. “My senior tutor told me they were trying to open it up to women and that I should apply,” she says...
...intelligence work. He was raised as a Lutheran on a street lined with towering elms in a middle-class neighborhood of northwest Chicago. Next-door neighbors remember Bob as polite, a good kid who did well in school and pleased his teachers. He went to the select liberal-arts Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where he majored in chemistry but had few extracurricular activities, unusual in the busy, close-knit society of the school. He also studied Russian, something even his mother Vivian says she did not know. "He might have been one of those loners," says Bruce Spencer...
...more than a century the heart of the financial world was a physical place called Wall Street, where slips of paper littered the floors and shouted bids to buy and sell filled the overheated air. And the most famous repository of wealth was Fort Knox, where soldiers guarded mounds of gold bars deep inside Kentucky's rolling hill country...
Wall Street and Fort Knox are still there, of course, but their mystique is fading fast. Not even James Bond's nemesis Auric Goldfinger would try to rob the fort anymore; bullion is in a two-decade-long slump. Nowadays, real money doesn't glitter or clink. It blinks across the world's computer screens. More wealth is created--or destroyed--in an instant than J.P. Morgan could have comprehended. Net-savvy investors are reaping the rewards and assuming the risks of controlling their financial destiny...