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...slightly safer topic: treasury secretary. Bob Rubin and Larry Summers, both Greenspan buddies, are tough acts to follow, and one hopes Bush ran his Treasury shortlist (currently headed by ALCOA chief Paul O'Neill) by the Fed chairman, because the relationship between the Bush administration and the Fed will be Topic A for Wall Street's Beltway-watchers. The bad news: The new treasury secretary's first job will be selling that very same...
...only as "Dear Friend." When Moscow suggested more complex and distant drop sites, he refused, saying, "My experience tells me we can actually be more secure in easier modes." He refused requests to meet Soviet agents face to face or travel abroad: these could look suspicious. "I am much safer if you know little about me," he wrote in 1988. "Neither of us are children about these things. Over time, I can cut your losses rather than become...
...Similar scenes are being played out across Europe these days as panicky consumers are abandoning beef in droves and turning to what they consider safer alternatives: pork, poultry, lamb, fish and, increasingly, organic fruits and vegetables. Some adventurous souls are tucking into more exotic fare like ostrich, emu, bison and kangaroo. With certain beef products officially banned and others looked on with growing suspicion, there is a danger that some traditional European dishes, from ossobuco to côte de boeuf, may be headed for extinction. Such fears may well be exaggerated. But one thing seems certain: "mad cow" disease...
...post-Soviet decade. In the early 1990s, seeking to burnish their image, the country's richest bankers turned to collecting art. "We encouraged them," says Georgi Nikich, a Moscow art critic who participated in Inkombank's acquisition of the Black Square. "Naively, we thought the works would be safer in their hands." Nikich recalls how he heard of this Black Square when he was running one of Moscow's first commercial art fairs. "A woman called up from Samara, claiming to have a Malevich. Of course, we all laughed." But when the head of the Samara branch of Inkombank called...
...right, but who wants reality? The whole point of theme parks is to be transported to a place that's cleaner, safer and more fun than real life. If Disney's illusioners can persuade 7 million more people to double the time they spend here, they will have transformed what they like to call "the Happiest Place on Earth" into one of the busiest--and also one of the most profitable...