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...this a bear market? It may be, and it may be all but over already. With information so quickly and extensively disseminated via the Internet, and with the low cost of trading, rapid market moves have become common. The time it takes to correct market excesses has condensed. So bear markets end as quickly as they start, and soon stock prices are on firm footing again. In fact, Wall Street hasn't witnessed a drawn-out bloodletting since...
...after a tragedy that left 15 dead--and scores of questions about why the police moved so slowly--crisis training that was once reserved for big-city SWAT teams has entered the curriculum for street cops. The Los Angeles police hope to have 5,000 patrol officers trained in rapid-deployment techniques by June. The National Tactical Officers Association, a SWAT training organization, has put more than 1,000 officers through "R.U. Ready High School" in Moyock, N.C., a $45,000 facility specifically built to simulate Columbine-style carnage. A school-hostage drill in Pinellas County, Fla., last month featured...
...While never leaving the living room set, Blue Leaves climaxes with a bomb explosion, offstage deaths, Ronnie's arrest, and Bunny deserting Artie for the famous Hollywood director Billy (Christian Rolleau '01). Artie and Bananas are left on the couch alone again as the door slams. After so many rapid and fantastic events, the calm and lasting image of husband and wife seems to return the play to its foundation and end the superfluous insanity. Bananas is comforting and quiet as a dejected Artie holds and kisses her-we hold our breath wondering if her illness is cured...
South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung has finally succeeded in getting a date with the world's most resolute geopolitical wallflower, but don't expect a rapid thaw in the Cold War's most intractable conflict. Pyongyang and Seoul announced simultaneously on Monday that President Kim will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in the Northern capital in the first top-level summit between the two states since their creation five decades ago. Although the announcement was clearly timed to coincide with South Korea's midterm elections - in which President Kim had been criticized by the opposition...
...then, in a rapid acceleration that mirrors the explosion of events in the Gospels, the Pope over seven days visited Bethlehem; surveyed not one but two spots where Jesus may have been baptized; offered Mass from the site of Christ's Sermon on the Mount; climbed the steps to the upper room where tradition places the Last Supper; prayed at Gethsemane, where Jesus was betrayed; and, just before flying back to Rome, celebrated Mass again at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site at which Catholics and the Eastern churches believe Jesus was buried and resurrected. (Protestants believe Jesus...