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LAST OCTOBER, WHEN PRESIDENT Clinton's inner circle was peddling him a comparatively rosy take on the midterm elections, one unlikely outsider was sending an alarm. Dick Morris, a Democratic turned Republican consultant who had worked for Clinton in Arkansas, told the President the Democrats would lose 50 seats in...
This is where the optimists come in. The consensus of Wall Street's battalion of educated guessers, the analysts, is that the Dow's earnings will rise to $390 in 1996. This is a rather stunning jump over the current level, so this prediction has taken a lot of people...
Chelius' prediction, however, has not come true. The Crimson is 5-3 at the moment--only 1-2 in the Ivy League and still waiting to face league-leading Dartmouth--and is mired at No. 11 in the country.
Predicting political trends is like predicting the stock market: the most common mistake is assuming that current trends will continue. Therefore, I boldly risk the opposite prediction: the populist, anti-Washington fire storm is about to fade. Nurtured on complaints and resentments that were amorphous at best, it will be...
Working against a tight deadline, at least 20,000 Japanese police fanned out today in a desperate search for cult leaders suspected in last month'snerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Coast guard patrols checked boats leaving the country, and police in Tokyo went on "emergency alert." The reason...