Fri, Oct 29 2004
75th Anniversy of Stock Market Crash
NEW YORK - "Black Tuesday,"
Oct. 29, 1929, wiped 10% off the value of U.S. common stocks and seared a place
in America's financial psyche.
Even today, the popular image of "the panic" is of bankrupted fat-cat investors throwing themselves to their deaths from windows high above Wall Street.
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The Planets Have Made Up Their Mind: Kerry Wins
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -
Surveys in the United States may be showing the race for president as too close
to call but top Indian astrologers say the planets have clearly made up their mind:
John Kerry will win
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"Saturn, which is the lord of health and fortune for President Bush, has been eclipsed by the Sun, which is unfortunate and gives him a clear defeat," Lachhman Das Madan, editor of a popular astrology magazine, told Reuters.
"Kerry will win," said Madan, who is also known as "the emperor of astrologers." "It is cosmic writ that George W. Bush cannot become president of United States again." Story here
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Thu, Oct 28 2004
Bush Rally Fizzles
In a major security snafu,
60,000 potential Bush supporters were turned away from a campaign rally at the Pontiac
Silverdome, former home of the Detroit Lions NFL team. Details are sketchy, but
early indications are that a screening device used to measure the loyalty of potential
rally attendees malfunctioned and instead measured their intelligence.
"It
looks as though the only people allowed into the rally were those with IQ's between
100 and 105", said a campaign source who spoke to reporters on condition on
anonymity. "Anyone with an IQ below 100 was not allowed to enter."
Asked
what happenened to voters with IQ's over 105, the spokesman replied, "This
is a Bush rally. We don't have to worry about anyone over 105 trying to get in."
The
disappointed 60,000 milled around outside the stadium for an hour before dispersing.
"It was a peaceful crowd..very passive", said Assistant Police Chief Nate
Baumgartner.
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Tue, Oct 26 2004
PAUL KRUGMAN - A Culture of Cover-Ups
Aides to John Kerry say that if he wins, he'll replace Porter Goss as head of the C.I.A. Let's hope so: Mr. Goss has already confirmed the fears of those who worried about his appointment by placing Republican staff members from Capitol Hill in key positions and raising fears about a partisan purge.But the flap over Mr. Goss is only a symptom of a much broader issue: whether the Bush administration will be able to maintain its culture of cover-ups. That culture affects every branch of policy, but it's strongest when it comes to the "war on error." more
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