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...best. Censuring the President in a symbolic vote by both houses has all the music of compromise that lawmakers love: it sends the moral signal that Clinton's behavior was wrong and unacceptable, but it stops well short of running him off. Both Republicans and Democrats could take their pound of flesh just a few weeks before the election, but without lowering themselves to Starr's level. Under the circumstances, says a presidential adviser, they would gladly settle for a censure. "If we could get a deal, we'd take...
...Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than 12 in. in some places--which caused flooding in North and South Carolina. When the crisis seemed to be over, Bonnie regained some of her fury to pound Virginia before heading...
...part of his plan?s allure. The West, Mahathir insists, fears a ascendant Asia, with its large Muslim populations and strong governments, and is gleefully exploiting the Asian crisis as an opportunity to tear down the region's governments and replace them with toadies. In Mahathir's play, the pound of flesh has already been torn away. Like its neighbors, Malaysia lies bleeding, but when Korea, Thailand and Indonesia eagerly gulped down $150 billion in IMF bailout loans, Mahathir wanted none of the West's medicine. Shylock, after all, was no healer...
...pilots gave until it hurt then," he says, "and the executives made a jillion dollars when Northwest got healthier. Now it's doing very well, and the labor contracts are up, and the pilots want their pound of flesh." To Northwest, says Saporito, the pilots are "overpaid prima donnas who already got their fair share." Clearly, there are no white hats in this one -- just a lot of native South Dakotans with no way to get home for Labor Day (OK, several native South Dakotans). "Northwest's regional monopoly may force Clinton to intervene," says Saporito. Until then, the money...
...pumped $9 trillion into investment portfolios and encouraged Americans to spend some of their gains--a trend that has helped sustain prosperity. But the "wealth effect"--the term economists use for the urge to splurge when we feel rich but to pull back when we feel poorer--could pound the economy if we see more days like last Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 299 points. It was the Dow's third-largest single-day fall, though in percentage terms it was not among the 100 biggest drops. "People feel they've got so much money [in stocks...