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WASHINGTON: Alan Greenspan gave the House Banking Committee a tour Wednesday through the hospital ward that is the global economy, and once you untangle what committee chairman James Leach laughingly called "international banking-ese," the Fed chairman sounded a lot like Patton. While acknowledging that the modern ultra-connected economy is less forgiving than at any other time in history, Greenspan chastised both borrowers and lenders for irresponsibility and bad risk assessment, attacked the nonparticipation strategy of China and India (and by association Malaysia), and in general told the ailing: Quit whining and clean up your economic acts, and free...
...before you cancel the beach-house rental and pack the pup tent, you should know that Slab City--which got its name from the concrete remnants of a World War II training ground used by General Patton--isn't exactly Palm Springs minus ex-Presidents and bad pants...
Despite the military brilliance of General George S. Patton, he has suffered vilification as a result of some relatively minor incidents. But now, according to your piece on military officers' questionable sexual relationships [NOTEBOOK, July 20], he was not only an adulterer but an incestuous one to boot, having had an affair with his "niece." Whatever the nature of Patton's involvement with Jean Gordon, it was not incestuous, since Gordon was not his blood relation. She was the daughter of his wife's half sister. We hope that Patton will be remembered as a hero who shortened...
...OFFICER] GENERAL GEORGE PATTON...
...attacking team; that's our strength," said Dartmouth Coach Amy Patton. "Once we got our transition game going, we rattled off some goals...