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SOHN: There is a crisis of confidence in the stock market. It is wider and deeper and more basic than it used to be. People are saying, "I knew the stock market was a gamble, but I thought it was an honest casino. I am mad and angry, and I am going out and buying a car or house instead of being in the stock market...
...enhancing steroids. Even after the court upheld drug testing of student athletes, only a fraction of school districts followed through. Many holdouts cite budget constraints; others cite privacy issues. A.C.L.U. attorney Graham Boyd warns, "If drug testing now becomes a rite of passage...the door will be cracked open wider to government demands for DNA, medical records, financial information and other personal data...
...cash in on Landers' death. Phillips, who inherited Dear Abby, went on Larry King Live and made public her grief over her aunt's death. Howard, who writes a Dear Prudence column, says her cousin's appearance was an attempt to "flog" the Dear Abby column and gain wider distribution among newspapers. We're no experts, but here's our advice: someone in this family should find a different line of work...
...took something more, a pre-eminent theological entrepreneur, to bring a wider American audience to the apocalyptic tradition. Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, published in 1970, became the best-selling nonfiction book of its decade; TIME called Lindsey "the Jeremiah of our generation" for his detailed argument that the end was approaching. "That's the first book I ever read about last days, and it changed my life," says George Morrison, pastor of Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colo., where average Sunday-morning attendance is 4,000. "All of a sudden, I was made aware that...
...certainly no shortage of manual work to do in the ruins of Ramallah. Unimpressed by the proceedings, Israel continues to demand their extradition, although the Palestinian Authority insists that under the Oslo agreements it is the proper authority to try the men. But it?s not lost on wider Palestinian society that not only the accused, but also the judges, prosecutor and the PA security men summarily appointed as 'lawyers' are all, in fact prisoners of the Israelis, right now. The Economist quotes a Fatah member saying that in the wake of the Israeli offensive, the PA itself is something...