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...Right now, I think we're bouncing around at the bottom of the cycle, where the economy is basically standing still and could either start to slowly pull out of it or take a further dip into a contractionary phase...
...suicide bomb at a gas station just inside Israel that set in motion Phase 1 of Sharon's plan. A group of young Israelis gathered there each morning to wait for the bus. A young Palestinian, a student at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, approached the kids with his leather jacket zipped up, despite the heat of the morning. Beneath the jacket was a girdle of explosives. When he detonated, he took two Israeli youngsters with him. It was the third explosion--and two other bombs were defused--within Israel's borders in 24 hours. There had been so many...
...never apologize" is a dullard's policy. The apology - one of the more creative forms of human insincerity - has a thousand inflections and subtle uses. It may, for example, be employed as a splendid instrument of reversal. Remember when Bill Clinton went through his apologizing phase? After a time, we wanted to plead with him to make up with Monica and resume the behavior for which he was begging forgiveness - anything to shut...
...circle is now complete. Again. John Scofield, master guitarist and long touted as one of the “big three” of the six strings company that includes Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell is back. In another phase of a career founded on jazz-funk fusion that later moved on to more straight jazz, and then returned to his rookie days, Scofield has turned around once again. On the North American leg of a world tour, Scofield stopped in for a four-night set on March 7 at the Regattabar, for an event that seemed as much...
...were in the manufacturing sector, which we already know is in a recession. And there were some other good signs. Average hourly earnings actually rose in March, along with average weekly pay. And hours worked were up too. If the economy was truly in a contractionary phase, hours worked would be shrinking...