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That is the consensus of TIME's Board of Economists, which gathered recently in Manhattan to assess 1999 prospects for the global and American economies--in that order, which reverses its custom. But then these are tail-wagging-the-dog days. Rather than the progress of the American economy largely determining global trends, it is the U.S. that is now under the heavy influence of events overseas--something that hasn't really happened since the oil shocks of the 1970s...
...President Clinton signed a top-secret order, approved by the congressional intelligence committees, that authorized the CIA to begin covert operations to break up bin Laden's terror network. The agency's counterterrorism center--200 operatives housed in a windowless warren of cubicles in the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters--had set up a special bin Laden task force. Analysts were assigned to read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated "link analysis" programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters with varying degrees...
...Democrats decide to see the vote through to the end, the first order of business will be to push for censure. Democrats will try to get the articles of impeachment sent back to Judiciary with the instructions that the committee rewrite them, substituting "censure" for "impeach." That motion will doubtless fail, as will any other attempt at providing a censure option for the representatives. Once debate is concluded, the four articles will come to a vote...
...came to pass Friday that the Parisian subway system received the first application of a new perfume. The scent, named Madeleine (after one of the more notoriously fetid stops on the Metro) is to be splashed throughout the subway system over the next few weeks in order to combat the unwholesome odors that have permeated the city's underground since its creation...
...first time ever the housing office sent a mailing to all multi-unit houses in Cambridge and the surrounding area, in order to attract more listings, Dunn says...