| Guy Raz, NPR Biography
He returned to NPR in June 2006 and began working on stories about ideas rather than events. His latest project was a five-part series called "The Language of our Times" which ran on All Things Considered in the Autumn of 2006. The stories attempted to turn words and terms into "characters." He also profiled former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and current Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice through the ghost of their shared mentor, Josef Korbel. As CNN's Jerusalem correspondent, Raz chronicled everything from the rise of Hamas as a political power to the incapacitation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Israel's withdrawl from the Gaza Strip in 2005. In May 2004, he spent six weeks with US forces in Najaf during a period of heavy fighting with Shiite insurgents.
Wise leaves Leeds for Newcastle
Wise, a key member of the Wimbledon "Crazy Gang" who won the FA Cup in 1988, took over at Leeds from Kevin Blackwell in October 2006 but could not prevent the club being relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time. However, he has won the fans over by guiding Leeds to fifth in the table despite starting with a 15-point deficit after they went into administration at the end of last season. Last October, Wise's assistant Gus Poyet left Leeds to become Juande Ramos's number two at Tottenham Hotspur. (Writing by Mitch Phillips, editing by Alison Wildey) .
A Tax Rebate Won’t Fix This Mess
All that remains to be determined are details and speed. Though many, even most, people may pay down debt instead of buying new things, I don't agree the economy gets nothing. It gets a small shift from debt owed by individuals to debt owed by the federal government. I believe that over-indebtedness of citizens is worse than over-indebtedness of government, because the latter can still be addressed by taxes at the high end (if you have veto-proof Democrats writing the tax bills.) Swamped citizens are harder to fix socially. As for interest rates, they are too low on insured time-deposit savings when around 4%, perhaps soon to reduce to more like 3%. Those rates do not cover real inflation even before tax, much less after tax. Yet we know interest rates are too high on "adjusted up" mortgages, some car loans, credit cards and payday loans to consumers.
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