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...Bill Clinton has made triangulation history with his six-year sidle into the heart of what was once a Republican fiscal conservatism, but it was Mr. Greenspan, with arms akimbo and foot a-tapping, who was waiting for the president when he got there. In 1992 Greenspan told Clinton in un-opaque terms that the tax-cut inauguration party Clinton was planning would immediately be met by a punitive/precautionary hike in interest rates. Clinton listened -- Greenspan, after all, had just rate-hiked George Bush right out of office (at least that?s how Bush tells it). Clinton?s economy-stupid...
...Liberty, gleefully noting that Hillary?s upcoming cover-girl party for about-to-be launched Talk magazine was back on in the Big Apple, right on Liberty Island ? and that the First Lady, unlike her main rival, New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, has vowed to serve her full six-year term if elected. (Giuliani, as politics lovers will know, had banned the Talk bash from taking place in New York's Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...overseers are elected at large by Harvard alumni. Over 35,000 alums--17.9 percent of degree holders--cast ballots for the candidates, who will serve six-year terms...
More open, but far less powerful, is the Board of Overseers, the University's secondary governing board. Elected each year by alums to serve six-year terms, the overseers meet to form committees, approve appointments, form committees and discuss issues...
...American Airlines putting something sleepy in the air, namely its pilots? The June 1 crash of Flight 1420 in Little Rock bookended a six-year period in which American jets were involved in six accidents ?- two of them accounting for 171 deaths ?- more than any other domestic carrier. Federal investigators are now looking for a pattern, said NTSB spokesman Paul Turk, "to see if there is something we need to do." American?s pilots ?- who probably have the industry?s prickliest relationship with their management ?- have been only too happy to provide some usual suspects...