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...market-floor TV pundits say when they're confused and on the spot, Wall Street has some "digesting" to do. The early book is that these numbers, while not incredibly reassuring to those rooting for the Fed to stand pat in August (and that's pretty much everybody, Wall Street or Main Street), don't seem particularly likely to alarm Alan Greenspan much either...
White's is a transformation that begs for comparison with Saul's on the road to Damascus. Grandson of a tent revivalist, White was ghostwriter of choice in the 1980s to the Evangelical elite, co-authoring books with Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. One day, sitting with Falwell in a car surrounded by gay protesters, he realized he should be on the outside. After 25 years of clandestinely trying to "cure" himself via exorcism, electroshock and prayer, the father of two divorced and settled down with a man named Gary Nixon. Then he began searching...
Teamsters president James P. Hoffa thinks that Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan should be included in the fall presidential debates. Good idea...
...much of it eagerly, indeed cheerfully, recounted in the British press. He left his wife of almost 10 years and his two sons to take up with an American woman. Dissatisfied with the negotiations for the rights to his eighth novel, The Information, he dumped his agent, Pat Kavanagh, thereby infuriating her husband, the author Julian Barnes, who was until that moment one of Amis' closest friends. Amis underwent a long bout of dental reconstruction, prompting reporters to observe, in print, that he was not only a failed husband and father and money-mad but vain as well. And then...
...feel one more rate hike is still necessary. Greenspan, says Baumohl, is not among them. "There's no sign of any sharp drop-off in economic activity," he says. "On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's likely to stand pat for the rest of the year...