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Never mind that we got into this pickle pretty much on our own with mindless market speculation in pipe-dream Internet stocks. Now that the mess is eating our futures, we need leadership, and it's easy to pine for the days when Greenspan and Rubin, with trusty sidekick Larry Summers, ran the economic rapids so expertly that TIME dubbed them the Committee to Save the World during 1998's Asian financial crisis...
...collision. I screamed. The taxi driver began yelling at the top of his lungs, “What is that? What was that!?” The driver took me to the southern end of Allen St., near FDR Drive. I got out and started walking toward my Pine Street office...
Ariel Sharon sat at the pine dining table in the big kitchen of Sycamore Farm, his sprawling cattle ranch in the Negev Desert, early last week. Dressed in casual khakis and a white shirt with sleeves rolled up, the Israeli Prime Minister dug in to a lunch of roast chicken with a friend who came to visit. The violence of the Aqsa intifadeh had interrupted Sharon's brief vacation, and the conversation turned to the wars that had threatened the country's existence, right back to the 1948 battle to establish the state, when Sharon first saw military action. "This...
...That sounds nice, but it means nothing to folks like Dick Mahar. The superintendent in a small rural school district in Pine Plains, N.Y., Mahar is preparing to tell parents that this year's New York State budget will prevent the district from offering a pre-K program in the fall that parents and community members had lobbied for and the school board has approved. Nor will it help Head Start, the mother of all preschool programs, which under Bush's budget received just a $125 million increase, which is not even enough to pay for the cost-of-living...
...secret of all secrets. I didn't feel any fear. Some of us felt like a cloud had been lifted because there was now a target. For the previous 10 years in Japan, we had less and less of everything. Kids dug up roots of pine trees and squeezed them for oil. Junior-high kids were forced to work in bomb factories. People had to give their rice cookers and frying pans to the government to make weapons...