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...class moved on to Taylor’s 1961 piece Junction, which Taylor describes as taking place “as pedestrians cross at the intersection of Tranquility Street and Turmoil Boulevard...
...unemployment rate had risen to 6%, up from 5.7% the previous month. With the next presidential election less than two years away, "we recognize that we can no longer blame this on our predecessor," says a senior White House adviser. Nor can the Administration afford to prolong domestic turmoil as it seeks to rally public support for a possible war with Iraq. If Bush's attention is going to remain overseas, it becomes even more important that his domestic house be in order. "The President wants to be able to offer a plan in the State of the Union," says...
...school system has entered turmoil over the past few months as picketing crowds have spoken out against merger plans and the school committee has decided not to renew—and potentially even “buy out”—D’Alessandro’s employment...
...bolster its position in the south, the Administration is trying to reach out to Tehran through intermediaries. "We've asked our friends in Britain and Germany and Canada to help," says a U.S. official. American sources say political turmoil has made it difficult to tell whether hard-liners in Tehran can stomach siding with the U.S. A senior Iranian official tells TIME that his government signaled that it wants to cooperate by allowing al-Hakim's brother to attend a meeting of opposition groups in Washington on Aug. 9. "The sending of Hakim was hugely important to us," says this...
...household-savings rate. That totes out to $150,000 per capita, or nearly two and a half years' worth of the average worker's income per household?making it a massive, self-funded social safety net, insulating the country's citizens, at least to a degree, from the economic turmoil around them. And because many accounts are still government guaranteed, the Japanese just keep socking it away, no matter how bad the economic news gets. The government, meanwhile, directly controls 20% of that money through its postal savings system, which it has treated as an always-replenishing piggy bank...