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...There?s more than share prices riding on the consumer's wallet. Back in January, when Alan Greenspan officially put the nation on recession watch with the first of many interest-rate cuts, the recovery scenario was simple. Helped by Fed easing, businesses would need till the end of summer at the latest to deal with their post-bubble hangover by cutting production and payrolls; until then, American consumers - who make up two-thirds of U.S. economic activity - would have to carry us through...
...that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity. As he went along his mood would assert itself and the temperature would start to increase till the point of incandescence... He inspired us all - the musicians, the actors, the sound-effects men and the engineers. They?d all tell you they never worked on shows like Welles...
...across the street, in front of a billboard for the movie Pearl Harbor, is a group from the local Ryukyu University. The students wave banners and shout hoarsely into bullhorns: "We oppose American bases on Okinawa! We oppose President Bush! We oppose violence to women! We will not rest till the bases...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Persuades renegade Zambian archbishop to leave wife, renounce Moonies. Till Papa do us part...
...that Rat Race avoids piety entirely. It ends with a near orgy of unpersuasive show-biz sentimentality. But up till then it's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote through--come to think of it--a similarly bleak and comically perilous American landscape...