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...revenge, Teddy Roosevelt bluster. Instead, the country seems subdued. Too many other anxieties are floating unmoored in the mind - fears about the stock market, about Middle Eastern war, about oil prices, about the possibility that the good-time '90s are about to turn, post-millennium, into their own evil twin. Americans have a sneaking superstition about Clinton: When he goes, the lucky '90s go. What waits...
DIED. REGGIE KRAY, 66, British gangster who in the 1950s and '60s ruled east London with his identical twin Ronnie as modern-day Robin Hoods, giving money to the poor and hobnobbing with West End socialites; a month after he was released from prison, where he spent 32 years for murder; of bladder cancer; in Norwich, England...
...Well, almost. There was hardly any suspense at all this time about the actual decision. This is election time, when the stringently apolitical Fed just doesn't want to get involved unless it absolutely has to, and after last week's twin interventions on behalf of both the euro and oil prices, this was not the time Greenspan wanted to roil the markets in any way. But there are clouds on the horizon, and when Greenspan mentioned one of them - rising oil prices that could exert inflationary pressures - investors had a little sell-off, stopped, and then sold again until...
...Charlottes swarming Harvard are most likely the pretty pearl girls who flock to the Bee. The club has certain standards which prevent the hive from collapsing, namely that the members are beautiful, exclusive and obsessed with twin sets (last year one member boasted that she owned more than 30 of them). Girls tend to resent them but the guys all love them--and the same goes for Charlotte on the show...
Indeed, the results, in the events and in spectacle, were so good that by Sunday morning the host nation was already declaring victory over the Games of Atlanta. Australia's opening ceremony not only had ceremony but also offered substance in twin dramas of national and international reconciliation. When Aboriginal Cathy Freeman, a favorite in the 400-m run, crossed a pond of water to light the Olympic flame, she symbolically bridged a racial divide that has tainted and tormented Australia. And during the parade of athletes, the teams of South and North Korea entered as one, two bitter enemies...