U.S. presidents through the eyes of Greenspan

Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007
NEWS

Thai official blames wind for jet crash that killed 90
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Investigators searched Monday through charred remains of a plane that
crashed
and killed 90 people mostly foreigners on Thailand's resort island of
Phuket,
while an airline official said wind shear may have doomed the flight.

'Jena Six' backers plan rally; verdict vacated
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The NAACP expects as many as 60,000 people from more than 30 cities to
descend
this week on Jena, La., a poor, rural community of 3,000 at the center
of a
racially charged case involving six black high school students charged
with
beating a white classmate.

In the Southwest, fixing the fence never ends
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Keeping the U.S.-Mexico border fence repaired has become a constant
battle for
U.S. Border Patrol and National Guard engineering units, whose work has
added
an increasingly expensive layer to the cat-and-mouse game between U.S.
law
enforcement and illegal immigrants.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-16-border-fence_N.htm

MONEY

GM-UAW talks temporarily end early
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Bargainers for General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers took a
break
early Monday amid optimism that they are getting closer to reaching a
critical
contract agreement.

U.S. presidents through the eyes of Greenspan
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Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan worked with every
president
except Jimmy Carter after signing on in 1967 as an adviser to Richard
Nixon
during his bid for the White House. In his book, "The Age of
Turbulence,"
Greenspan expresses sometimes strong opinions about the presidents,
their
personalities, their leadership styles and how effectively they
governed. A
look:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/2007-09-17-greenspan-presidents_N.htm