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Though the market dropped after the bell rang, earlier predictions of panicked selling were thankfully proven false. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan acted forcefully to maintain confidence, making half-point cuts in the interest rate to provide easier credit to businesses. The European Central Bank quickly followed suit, leading to a rally rather than a decline in European markets...
Until the bell actually rang, the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday - after its longest blackout since the "bank holidays" of the Depression - was hailed by every official personage, from President George W. Bush to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to NYSE chief Richard Grasso, as a victory for the capitalists over the terrorists...
...Next door is the church where my father preached, my mother played the organ and I pumped the bellows for it. Maybe that's where, subconsciously, I started getting interested in the pump, which is all the heart is, after all. I can remember as a boy when they rang a big bell in Beaufort West at 9 o'clock, and all the colored people had to leave town for the night. My father, however, would not accept any difference between white people and black or colored people. I learned that tolerance from my father, who said...
Your report on the proliferation of reruns on TV rang true for me. As a high school history teacher, I find that these shows provide a great teaching tool. Teachers can show not only videos that reflect the values of postwar America but also clips that reflect the evolution of those values. TV reruns can illustrate the evolution of modern feminism. MATT CONE Plano, Texas...
...regular as Susan and Robert Levy's appearances before the waiting cameras at the end of their driveway. After Condit denied the affair in two interviews with police, Levy's aunt and confidant, Linda Zamsky, provided details of their liaison to the Washington Post--details so embarrassing that they rang true. "It accomplished what we wanted," says one of the Levys' allies. That night Condit volunteered to do a third interview--the one in which he finally admitted the affair. The Levys then ramped up their demands, asking that Condit take a lie-detector test; he did so privately...