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...pretense that President Bush isn't thinking about politics was ended last week when he launched a robust schedule of campaigning for G.O.P. candidates. In New York City the President attended two fund raisers for New York Governor George Pataki and met privately with Edward Cardinal Egan, fostering ties to the Roman Catholic community that Bush's advisers believe are crucial to his political success. But more quietly, Bush has been bolstering his credentials with social-conservative Republicans, who are even more crucial in this off-year election, in which only the most faithful turn out to vote...
Modigliani’s powerful interpretation of Ba’al is instrumental in realizing Broadwater’s production. Modigliani inhabits the role in robust, full-bodied fashion, and the audience shudders with his every writhe and demonic grin. In sometimes taunting the audience, then desperately calling out for help, he forces them to see themselves as implicated, even if unwillingly, in his plight...
...state sector through bankruptcies, downsizing or privatization (called "corporatization" in the argot of this still officially communist land). Some workers have found new jobs in the expanding private sector, but urban unemployment remains high, at more than 8%. The economy grew last year 7.4%, which sounds extremely robust by U.S. standards but is dangerously near the minimum rate needed to create jobs for the tens of millions entering the work force each year or laid off from the slowly shrinking state sector...
Afghanistan remains a good war for Tony Blair, whose approval rating is a robust...
...Internet switches and routers, as well as speedy fiber-optic lines. That spending helped fuel the boom. But once corporate tech budgets tightened, tech stocks plummeted, and so did spending among consumers who held those stocks. Suddenly, those consumers felt much poorer. Typically, cycles work the other way. Robust consumer spending at the height of a boom induces businesses to build more plants at just the wrong moment--when the Federal Reserve is ready to dampen the whole party with higher interest rates to root out inflation...