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...Well, it?s a Fed week again. The Body Greenspan comes together Tuesday to toss another interest-rate cut into the bottomless pit that is the collective heart of the American CFO, as Wall Street, Main Street, Washington and their one-man confluence, Big Al, all wonder: What will it take to get corporate America?s money-movers to pull the trigger on capital investment again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Street This Week: Fed-Watching, With a Heavy Heart | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...shouldn't take a small publisher, based in Canada, to bring baseball to American comicbooks, but it has. Fortunately, James Sturm's rousing, brass-band-and-hoopla wonder, "The Golem's Mighty Swing" (Drawn & Quarterly; 108 pgs; $11.95) is more than equal to the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Ballpark | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...state it mildly, because of my 4000-yuan monthly salary, Alice might one day earn closer to it than she does now; because of the relatively luxurious conditions in which I dwell, Alice might one day experience better than she currently does. Until then, the disparities that make me wonder why she doesn’t hate me are part of, and perhaps the price of, development...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHINA: In The Workers’ Paradise | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...wonder, then, why anyone would feel it necessary to put such an exhausted piece on the stage once more; if one does, all he needs do is see the is final production of the Harvard summer season to find the answer...

Author: By Jeremy W. Blocker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revamped ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Offers Memorable Shakespeare Experience | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...Strangely enough, of course, the coup leaders' rather hazy plans sound like what Vladimir Putin is trying to achieve. A little more discipline, more state intervention in the economy, law and order. I sometimes wonder if that is why, when Putin wanted to carry out a small covert operation of his own - an intensive series of interviews that led to his campaign biography early last year - he chose a large high-walled brick building on the edge of the city. A strange choice, you would think: It was in the same venue, on August 17 1991, that the coup leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism's Last Hurrah: Our Man in Moscow Remembers | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

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