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Last Friday, Tripp issued a statement to offset her image as the villain of the piece. But it's too late for that. It's now clear that Tripp made the tapes not because she wanted to forestall a challenge to her veracity if she had to out Monica Lewinsky the way she did Kathleen Willey. She didn't put them in a vault to be used defensively. She voluntarily played them for Ken Starr in a pre-emptive strike against the White House she hated, at the expense of the person she had befriended. She readily became an informant...
...snows between Plympton Street and the Freshman Union. Down in the shop, we put together the paper in a frantic, beer-fueled haze. Around 5 a.m., the dread moment finally arrived--when, in the absence of pressman Lew Brooks, we would have to wrestle with The Crimson's hulking offset press by ourselves...
...combustion engine, a new kind of automobile is on the way. Several major auto manufacturers are designing hybrid electric cars that have twice the fuel economy and half the carbon-dioxide emissions of today's vehicles. The sticker price is admittedly a few thousand dollars higher but is largely offset by lower fuel bills. Toyota plans to bring the first such car to the market in Japan this week, and other carmakers will soon follow suit (see following story...
...greatly exaggerated reaction," in the words of Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, the turmoil will hurt American exports and the profits of U.S. companies heavily invested there. But strong growth at home and in other big U.S. markets--Canada, Mexico and Europe--should offset much of the damage...
Production will grow more slowly, says Zimmerman, in part because "we're running out of labor." The shortage will also push up wages. Weinberg hopes that much of the increase can be offset by higher productivity resulting from the heavy business investment of recent years (business spending on new plant and equipment has been shooting up 18% a year). Nonetheless, prices will be forced up at a slightly faster rate than...