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...first time, cut interest rates simultaneously.) Sharp fluctuations in exchange rates would be a very unwelcome complication to this effort. So, Putnam predicts, financial technocrats will get involved. "Instead of getting wild swings, we may end up with fixed exchange rates" between the euro and the dollar, set by tacit agreement between the Fed and the Euroland bank...
Sullivan's latest novel, Love Undetectable, is born from this revolution in AIDS treatment. Sullivan tells us of his renaissance--his tacit preparation for death, then his difficult readjustment to life. Sullivan makes it clear that along with the euphoria that followed the realization that he was going to live came a surprising anticlimax. It seemed that life was most precious when it was about to end. As his viral load of AIDS plummeted, Sullivan's relief was countered by an unexpected banality. And so, Love Undetectable is divided into three essays that explore the spectrum of thoughts that germinated...
...plans to dynamite SADDAM HUSSEIN into compliance. As the Pentagon refined its strategy, Defense Secretary WILLIAM COHEN and National Security Adviser SAMUEL BERGER hit the road to sell the plan to Arab and European leaders. While they got a frosty public response, officials say the private message was a tacit green light. Result: PRESIDENT CLINTON may decide to hit Iraq without a U.N. vote, something that has bottled up attack plans in the past. The strike could come this week. Chances of a bombing were enhanced by the fact that the Pentagon has compiled a sobering list of targets, including...
...plans to dynamite Saddam Hussein into compliance. As the Pentagon refined its strategy, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Samuel Berger hit the road to sell the plan to Arab and European leaders. While they got a frosty public response, officials say the private message was a tacit green light. Result: President Clinton may decide to hit Iraq without a U.N. vote, something that has bottled up attack plans in the past. The strike could come this week...
WASHINGTON: Depending on your outlook, Republicans have either started hitting below the belt or stopped ignoring the elephant in the room. Either way, the blitz of GOP attack ads launched in key districts Tuesday night -- with the RNC?s stamp of approval ?- means an end to the tacit agreement between the parties that the Lewinsky affair would not play a large role in the fall campaign. One commercial features two women discussing whether it?s "OK to lie"; another asks if voters should "reward not telling the truth"; a third uses the video, but not the audio, of the President...