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Increasingly, It’s the Economy That Scares Us

by Andrew Kohut, Director
Special to The New York Times

In the course of 24 hours last week President Bush gave a major speech calling for business reforms that will “usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America” and held a press conference that dealt more with Mr. Bush’s conduct when he was a Harken Energy board member than with the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile,… Complete story

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