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...news, but Wall Street had better pray that he sees it that way. Although the U.S. economy posted a heady 7.3 percent annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 1999 - almost half a percentage point above preliminary figures released a few weeks ago - the consumption frenzy didn't roust the beast of inflation from its slumber. On the contrary, the accompanying inflation indicator, the GDP price deflator, actually came in belowthe figure reported a month ago. And the good news didn't end there: U.S. exports rose by 10.1 percent (2.3 percent above last year's increase), suggesting...
...Mountain," commandeered a bus to cross the nearby Thai border and took 500 patients and staff hostage in a hospital in the town of Ratchaburi. Big mistake. They had wanted to protest recent shelling by Thai military units, who were cooperating with the Burmese military junta to roust out hill tribes and make way for border trade and roads. But the impulsive raid quickly dissolved into a debacle. Marching into a hospital with guns and explosives squandered any sympathy the Karen rebels had had in Thailand, their traditional safe haven. Within 24 hours, Thai commandos stormed the building, shot dead...
...Russ Feingold have seen their own soft-money ban gather a majority of 52 votes in the Senate, still eight short of busting the promised filibuster of the GOP?s head moneyman, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The head?counters say eight votes is still just too much to roust up on an issue that?s near and dear to GOP leaders (who hand out the soft money come reelection time) but somewhat less so to voters. Will this year be different? McCain, of course, has an entire presidential campaign riding on the possibility; expect him to shout it from...
...identified a bin Laden cell operating in Nairobi. The agency believed it was headed by Wadih el Hage, a Lebanese who held American citizenship and who, according to court documents, once served as bin Laden's personal secretary. Washington sent a secret request to Kenyan authorities in Nairobi: roust Wadih el Hage. For several weeks Kenyan police, sometimes accompanied by visiting FBI agents, began paying visits to el Hage's Nairobi home, searching its rooms, confiscating computer disks and darkly warning him that he'd face more hassling if he remained in the country...
...something of a palace coup. The Gang's return is the latest and by far the strongest indication that the star of Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes is eclipsing that of his nominal boss, Leon Panetta. One of Panetta's first acts last summer was to all but roust the consultants from the West Wing. He barred them from appearing on TV or in the Oval Office without his permission, and he conducted a none-too-private search for people to replace them. But Ickes had different ideas. In recent weeks he and his protege, newly appointed White House...