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...Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine ?- were settled. Although Moscow?s demands for more freewheeling deployment rights were denied for fear of creating a partition along the lines of postwar Germany, the Russians aren?t going to Kosovo as evenhanded mediators. "Unlike in Bosnia, where they were part of a neutral peacekeeping force under coordinated command, they?re making no bones about the fact that their mission in Kosovo is to protect the Serbs," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
Watkins and other top specialists employ a program of "trunk stabilization" exercises for professional and amateur athletes. The idea is simple: put the spine in a safe, neutral position; then run it through a series of rotational exercises designed to increase overall range of motion and strengthen the supporting muscles of the spine. (A description of these trunk-stabilization exercises can be found at www.spinecenter.org...
Best of all, the American accent immediately renders you a neutral observer on virtually all touchy issues and questions, making it largely unnecessary to spend all your time worrying about offending anyone (I tend to spend merely a significant minority of my time worrying about that). Thus far, I've found no war-torn urban wasteland here, no sir. Just a really interesting place to spend my summer vacation. John F. Coyle '01, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is spending the summer working for the U.S. State Department in Northern Ireland...
Thank you, Mr. Greenspan ?- may we go now? Right on time at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, the Federal Reserve released Wall Street from months of suspense. It raised short-term interest rates by one quarter point and returned its "bias" to neutral ?- and gave little sign of what it planned to do at its next meeting on August 24. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says that?s because Greenspan himself doesn?t know. "If the economy starts to slow down ?- and there are scattered indications that it?s beginning to ?- chances are he won?t raise again," he says...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataAfter a jittery morning of anticipation, the markets heard "neutral bias" and bolted. The Dow went from 44 points down to 74 up in less than a minute. Bond yields momentarily dipped below 6 percent for the first time in weeks. An extended rally ?- given the strong correlation between consumers and the value of their portfolios ?- could of course set off the very overheat that Greenspan is so worried about. But the indexes are short-sighted, emotional creatures, and Wednesday the emotion was relief. "The uncertainty is over, and Greenspan clearly is done raising...