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Where There's A Fad, There's A Market Markets are perfectly rational instruments, according to some economists. But others have their doubts. It's not just the unexplained ups and downs of particular stocks or indices. Even something as sober as how stock markets are organized is as susceptible...
That's an assessment he shares with the U.S. President. "After a succession of statesmen?Jiang Zemin, Vladimir Putin, Kim Dae Jung, Sweden's Goran Persson, Madeleine Albright?have returned home to tell us how rational, well informed, witty, charming, and deeply popular Kim Jong Il is, President Bush's...
Navasky gets so caught up in the Nation's financial success that parts of the book read like a Harvard Business School case study--which isn't surprising, since Navasky enrolled there part time after buying the magazine in 1994. Navasky, whose previous book, Naming Names, was an acclaimed history...
These new pragmatic idealists approach political protest with the same methodical preparation they might give to a job interview. At the University of Wisconsin, students have organized petitions and face-to-face negotiations with the administration. Says John Schenian, president of the Wisconsin Student Association: "If demonstrations are your only...
And although the House Committee on Government Reform stopped short of conjuring up the ghost of Joe McCarthy in an attempt to scare Mark McGwire into admitting his once-legendary bat speed was fueled with THG and HGH, the theater—or hearing, to be official—was...