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Your committee to save the world should be in the Hall of Shame, not in a pantheon of financial wizards. Greenspan only solved a problem that he created. He starved the world of dollar liquidity from November 1996 onward, as he watched the price of gold fall from $383 to $285. Ignoring this sure sign of monetary deflation, Greenspan caused a crisis in every country that relies on commodity exports to earn a living. JUDE T. WANNISKI, PRESIDENT Polyconomics Inc. Morristown...
...made it a practice to run a tight ship at the Supreme Court, will be running a show during which senators can outvote him at any moment on any question of procedure or evidence." It's the opportunity of a lifetime to stake out a place in the pantheon of justice or to go down in flames amidst the flares of politics. "Though outfitted in comical sleeve stripes he designed himself, Rehnquist will work as hard as he can to embody the majesty of the law," says McAllister...
...about one more nomination to the pantheon of business giants: the American workingwoman--Femella commercia Americana--the one who is pushing against the glass ceiling despite its seeming indestructibility...
...shantih to a disco beat. In a culture based largely on rather mundane Christian morality and imagery, people made of thoughts, eagles born from copulating trees and spontaneously appearing mountains all have the opportunity to be exploited for their "exoticism" and "Orientalism." The sexually explicit exploits of the Hindu pantheon are particularly vulnerable to such a reading--India is the culture that brought us the Kama Sutra, after...
...Green's is more verbal and prop-oriented. Howells plays a great straight man whose misguided traditionalism is artfully thwarted by the other characters' antics. Though all of the parts they play are similarly ridiculous, the ability of the three actors to cover in one form or another the pantheon of Shakespearean roles without becoming excessively confused is no small feat. Amblad goes from flight attendant, to especially silly Romeo, to a Martha Stewart-esque "Titus Androgynous" running a cooking show with a revenge theme, where the main ingredient is the rapist. His approach to the reductionist difficulties of "head...