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PREDICTOR William Safire, New York Times PREDICTION ''Replacements for retiring Justices Blackmun, White and Stevens will be Richard Posner, Brooksley Born and Floyd Abrams.'' WHAT HAPPENED Only Justice Byron White retired. He was replaced by Ruth Ginsburg.
PREDICTOR Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group PREDICTION ''Fidel Castro will fall in '93, finally, and his daughter will be a prominent player in the new government.'' WHAT HAPPENED Fidel remains in power. His daughter has just defected to the U.S.
PREDICTOR Wall Street Journal PREDICTION ''Nearly all analysts expect Congress to approve economic stimulus measures designed by Clinton.'' WHAT HAPPENED Congress's evisceration of Clinton's stimulus package was his biggest defeat.
Before the season even started, Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 expected big things from Kevin Du, his small but gritty junior center. “I think Kevin has a whole other level he can show us,” Donato said. “I think...
ON THE HOUSING BUBBLE Speaking to execs in Chicago last March in his capacity as Fed official, Bernanke parsed the dynamics in the economy and their policy implications. The speech echoed some familiar warnings by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, particularly the prediction that the housing bubble is unsustainable, and while...