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...cost factories in Eastern Europe allow Flextronics to deliver products to wealthier consumers in Western Europe weeks faster than do factories in Asia or Latin America. "About 70% of world electronics are sold in the Christmas season," says Roger Moore, executive director at the Flextronics industrial park in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. "If you've launched a new product in August, you really don't know whether it will take off until the season gets moving around the end of October. If you discover it's a real hit, and it is being shipped from China, it won't reach you until...
...Greenspan's. Father Greenback will be 77 then, and few expect him to try to go another four years after steering the money supply (rather successfully) through a recession, a boom, a global currency crisis and whatever it is we're in now. Who's up next? Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson is brilliant, qualified, and Bush just renominated him. But the Fed Chairmanship is a political appointment, for friends and allies only, and Ferguson was Clinton's pick...
...light sides of the Western intellectual quest. You see the twinning in the Faust legend. In the Medieval reading of it, Faust is damned to hell for his pact to obtain supernatural powers of knowledge from the devil - an act of human encroachment upon divine prerogatives. But (as Roger Shattuck points out in his splendid book "Forbidden Knowledge"), the Enlightenment gave Faust an opposite reading. The German dramatist G.E. Lessing's Faust, in the mid-eighteenth century, was not damned for his pact with the devil, but, on the contrary, saved, because of his now admirable striving after knowledge...
Never mind Roger Clemens vs. Mike Piazza - if the Rocket was trying to hit the Mets' Big Bad Blonde with that broken bat, Piazza would have spent the off-season in surgery. And never mind National League v. American League, senior circuit vs. junior circuit - any real All-Star rivalry between the leagues (and it was always tenuous at best) has long since evaporated in a haze of free agency and interleague play...
...Losers ROGER CLINTON Ex-First Bro questioned for $50,000 payment from crime boss Rosario Gambino's family. Wakes up with horse's ass in his bed PAULA POUNDSTONE Comedy Store hecklers sharpen your knives: stand-up comedian and foster parent is arrested for lewd acts with a teen girl KHALID DURAN Author goes into hiding after Jordanian cleric issues death edict for book. As rookie on the Rushdie circuit, he'll make the beer runs...