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On Interest Rates and Pastries

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Don’t leave me alone in a bakeshop — it’s way too tempting. I mean it’s as if those éclairs are just sitting there for the taking: too easy, too dangerous. I kind of feel the same way about interest rates (search): …

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Al Qaeda Posts Warning

And now the most captivating two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: Al Qaeda Posts Warning A message posted on anAl Qaeda (search)-linked Web site is urging all Muslims to leave Washington D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles immediately. The message tells the — “oppressive rulers …

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Bloodied but Unbowed

Many of you have been known to call me a Pollyanna — way too optimistic and more inclined to believe the good than buy the bad. I say, guilty as charged. That’s why I’m not prepared to dump on NASA over this Columbia tragedy. To be sure, it is a …

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