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...Crimson fired a 303 yesterday, the best one-day total it has ever had and a marked improvement over Saturday’s total...
...intimate bond forged during the first term. They see each other in weekly small-group meetings but frequently discuss policy issues in private, often over lunch or dinner. When Rice is on the road, Bush phones her at all hours. On the plane back from a surprise one-day visit to Iraq in May, she returned the favor, reaching Bush in the Oval Office to report on a meeting with Iraq's Shi'ite leaders in which she got them to agree to include more Sunnis in the drafting of a new constitution. "She was charged up," says a senior...
Though the 39.10-point one-day drop in the Dow beat the mark set in 1929, the decline is not comparable to the Great Crash. Experts maintain that it is a temporary pause in the bull market. A court decision leads Kodak to stop production of instant cameras and film, leaving the field to Polaroid. The Federal Reserve cracks down on the use of junk bonds in takeovers...
...meantime, many Australians would regard this as typical Pommie pessimism. England, after all, was unbeaten in Tests last year and has lost only two of its last 20. About the boldest comments have come from the paceman Darren Gough, recently retired from Test cricket but still in England's one-day squad. "This English team has some spine and could surprise a lot of you," Gough said. "It's a big test but they're giving themselves a chance. That's a start." Australia has held the Ashes since 1989, when Allan Border arrived in England determined to bury...
...history, Alan Greenspan, 79, might well have expected his final year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve to be one triumphant victory lap. Instead, the man known as Maestro may not even get a standing ovation. The economy is showing signs of slowing growth and oil-fueled inflation, a potentially dire duality. The Dow Jones industrial average, a daily vote on prospects, is filled with undecideds. The volatile Dow plunged early last week and then rallied for its biggest one-day gain in two years, only to retreat again at week's end. Far more certain are the critics...