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...Peter Katel:It's obviously dominating the news, and what is being emphasized today, understandably, is Fox's surprise insistence that some sort of agreement on immigration be nailed down by the end of the year. That certainly plays well here, after President Bush's slight cooling towards a major and imminent deal on immigration. Of course what isn't being emphasized by the press in either country is that President Bush can't really conclude a deal on immigration with Fox, because executive power is limited - it's the U.S. Congress that writes immigration...
...numbers for the rest of the week could either confirm or deny Tuesday?s newfound economic euphoria. Wednesday brings the revised productivity number for the second quarter - survey says a slight retreat from the former 2.5 percent to 2.0 percent. Being that we?re in the middle of a business-cycle inflection when layoffs and production cuts race each other to the ground, you may infer absolutely nothing of the New Economy?s long-term prospects from this news. Thursday brings up-to-the-minute unemployment-claims numbers for the last week of August, and a services report from today...
...number is bi-monthly, the CB is monthly; and the UM is proprietary, which means some paying customer has to leak it to Reuters before we can hear about it, while the CB's numbers are free to all. (This explains why the UM number is considered slightly more credible, though for my money the reports on consumers' emotional states have been singularly useless for most of this year.) That said, folks are expecting a slight bump...
...vagina began to give her pain rather than pleasure in "The Camera My Mother Gave Me" (Knopf; October 10). PW replies, Who cares? "Thin, disappointing...FORECAST: Already the subject of a NYT piece suggesting this ?autopathography? may become the target of a backlash against such transgressive confessions, Kaysen?s slight memoir will spark some controversy, but don?t expect ?Girl, Interrupted?-level sales." Kirkus is more entertained. "Pithy, funny, adventurous, sexy, and eye-opening...Disguised as plain, brown memoir, a voluptuous exploration of sexuality, aging, the failures of modern medicine, attempts at self-knowledge, and the meaning of pain...
...those innocent kids, except I'm 58. I've always had a slight heart murmur, inherited from my flinty ancestors, and when the valve came loose at the moorings, there wasn't much doubt about it. So my wife drove me to the Mayo Clinic, and they wheeled me into a bright blue industrial room and put a mask over my face, and I took a breath, and it was eight hours later...