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...want to see anybody do any more goddamn press conferences...Don't do another press conference until the resources are in the city." RAY NAGIN, New Orleans mayor, complaining in a radio interview about the slow pace of relief efforts...
Experts note that the social phenomenon of people marrying and starting families later allows parents a gap during which they can break away from the old ways. Some couples with married kids complain that the next generation is too slow to change its approach to holidays. That's why parents like the Schwartzes take off and leave the adult kids to fend for themselves. "After our holiday in Paris," Dianne Schwartz says, "I realized I'd needed to nudge the kids into starting their own traditions. After all, it's part of the growth process...
...five years on the court, Rehnquist wrote 24 solo dissents, so many that he kept a Lone Ranger doll on the mantel of his office fireplace. He was one of only two Justices to vote against Roe in 1973. But as more Republican appointees joined him, Rehnquist began a slow march from the court's fringe toward its center. Beginning in the 1980s, Rehnquist successfully limited the number of death-penalty appeals that federal courts can hear and also made it easier for police to present evidence in court that had been tainted by procedural errors. Under Rehnquist, the court...
...rest of Asia may not be in much better shape. Still lacking in support from domestic demand, most other Asian economies have become tightly integrated into a Chinese-centered manufacturing supply chain. To the extent that China's exports to the U.S. slow as American consumers are shaken by surging energy bills, production adjustments will ripple through Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. That's yet another manifestation of the interdependencies of globalization...
...industry is already producing flat-out, and demand is still increasing?albeit not as quickly as last year?driven by increasing consumption in China, India and the U.S. Unless that demand cools, the fear is that prices will inevitably continue to surge. Analysts who expected global economic growth to slow?thus curbing some demand for crude?as oil passed $40 and then $50 per barrel have been proved wrong. "Warnings that [$50-a-barrel oil] would threaten a global downturn turned out to be too pessimistic," says Richard Berner, an economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. With prices threatening...