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...INDICATOR Can monetary policymakers learn from soccer players? Bank of England governor Mervyn King thinks so. Evoking a 1986 Diego Maradona goal - the Argentine star darted through England's defense in a straight line - King said the expectation that Maradona would swerve cleared his path. The point? Market interest rates, moving in expectation of a change in official rates, can curb inflation without official rates changing. Nice goal...
...Klein's column "The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"-as Klein characterized it-in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside...
...progressive Catholics seem frustrated that the church won't be swayed by those who want it to break with 2,000 years of consistent doctrine, the church, theologically seen as the spouse of Christ, has done what a good mother should do: teach and guide us on the narrow path [May 2]. She reminds us that the church family is not a democracy and that it is not her job to be our friend. She is our mother - consistent, a little old-fashioned - but she instructs us and gives us shelter on the road to heaven. Catherine Baron Morrisville, North...
...charge of marketing the new Xbox. Moore knew that whatever has made Microsoft successful thus far wouldn't help it here. And Gates seems to recognize that too. "[The games industry] expects us to act like Microsoft: very formulaic, very product oriented, very march-down-the-straight-path," Moore says. "Bill is very important to us, but he's not driving this thing. God bless him, I think he wants to be more a part of it than we actually, you know, feel comfortable with...
...seems frustrated that the Catholic Church won't be swayed by those who want it to break with 2,000 years of consistent doctrine. The church, seen theologically as the spouse of Christ, has done what a good mother should do: teach us and guide us on the narrow path. She reminds us the church family is not a democracy and that it is not her job to be our friend. She is our mother--consistent, a little old-fashioned--and she instructs us and gives us shelter on the road to heaven...