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...House has done its share of jawboning the Fed to lower rates, economic growth being very good politics. And few Fed chairman listen, as the elder Bush so painfully learned in 1991 when Greenspan's caution in lowering ushered in the recession that ushered Bush out. So Bush the younger, who probably still hears about that around the barbecue pit in Kennebunkport, appears to be insuring himself as best he can against a similar fate...
...Disney is counting on the younger generation, who make up 80% of the movie-going public. But if the reactions of movie fans exiting the Tokyo premiere are any guide, this won't be a slam dunk. Naho Okada, a 17-year-old student, attended the premiere because Ben Affleck is "such a hottie." But the war scenes made her "uncomfortable," she says. Others were more blunt. "You can't make a film about this subject and not be critical of Japan," says Eri Watanabe, a 23-year-old housewife, "But I think it's pretty egotistical of Disney...
...recently demonstrated an unexpected adaptability in lab experiments. But these cells are marginally helpful to scientists, and do not show the same promise as those culled from embryos. Adult cells are fairly set in their ways, and don?t seem to grow or replicate themselves as quickly as their younger counterparts...
DIED. CHET ATKINS, 77, country-music guitarist whose unique finger-picking style influenced younger musicians from George Harrison to George Benson; in Nashville, Tenn. Atkins played on hit records with Elvis Presley (Heartbreak Hotel) and Hank Williams (Jambalaya), and sold 75 million copies of his own albums. Along with Vince Gill, he led all country artists in Grammy awards, with...
...Younger readers might have a hard chore imagining the impact the best-selling Portnoy's had on popular culture in 1969. TV comics and gossip columnists talked incessantly about Roth and his scandalous book, often speculating about the author's personal life. Surely, so the wisdom ran, Portnoy's was really autobiographical; how could Roth have created such a vividly persuasive portrait of a man in hilarious turmoil except by actually being that...