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...series of events promoting good news about the economy. To ward off charges that Bush is lounging on his ranch while the economy burns, he will make trips into the "heartland" to meet with anxious Americans. Topping it off, he will host a day-long economic forum in Waco, Texas...
...series of events promoting good news about the economy. To ward off charges that Bush is lounging on his ranch while the economy burns, he will make trips into the "heartland" to meet with anxious Americans. Topping it off, he will host a day-long economic forum in Waco, Texas...
...that the Bush team is finally on top of things. Meanwhile, they're praying that the "real economy" stays stable and the markets settle down. More made-for-TV indictments are likely this week, which will help too. But just in case, one topic slated for discussion at the Waco forum is-as White House communications director Dan Bartlett puts it-"ways to avoid a double-dip recession." And as some economists point out, on a graph, a double-dip recession looks like...
...enthusiasms lie east of the mountains, which are the Northwest's cultural wall, its Mason-Dixon line. To apple farmers six hours east of Seattle, it was the "damned environmentalists" of the Clinton Administration who brought down on their heads something that felt to the locals like an economic Waco. Orchards had prospered because of irrigation made possible by Columbia's dams. After several species of salmon were put on the Endangered Species List, the irrigation evaporated; farmers burned their crops and cursed the nation's capital...
...nature of police work and the limits of individualism. Cop dramas are dispatches on America's relationship to authority, and like The Shield, The Wire is a daring and timely one. We responded to 9/11 with a national narrative of teamwork: unite behind our institutions, and let's roll. (Waco? Diallo? Old news.) The rhetoric of good and evil was ascendant; anything in between smacked of moral equivalence. And yet the news since then has been Enron, the FBI, the church: institutions failing their charges...