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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2919)	2/19/2002 2:03:54 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5185

so much for the great bush effect! Tokyo stocks end sharply down as Bush visit ends (UPDATE: Updates to close) TOKYO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Tokyo stocks closed sharply lower on Tuesday as a three-day visit by U.S. President George W. Bush ended without yielding any concrete policy steps to revive Japan's ailing economy. Some investors had expected Bush's visit to give a shot of adrenalin to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's pledged economic reforms, in particular the disposal of banks' mounting bad debts. Those hopes proved to be in vain, sending Mizuho Holdings , the world's biggest bank by assets, down 7.36 percent to 214,000 yen. ``We shouldn't have expected anything new on economic issues in the first place because President Bush didn't bring any experts like (White House Economic Adviser Lawrence) Lindsey,'' said Hiroshi Nishida, general manager at Mitsubishi Trust Asset Management. The benchmark Nikkei average was down 246.09 points or 2.44 percent at 9,847.16, the biggest one-day percentage fall since December 13, when it lost 3.41 percent.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2919)	2/19/2002 2:11:02 AM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5185

Bad taste to trivialize Martin Luther King, Jr. in ice dancing. Karl Rove sets up all of Bush's photo ops. W never served in the military. He got in the reserves with many other rich men's sons so he never went to Viet Nam. Yet, his photo opt specialist, Karl Rove, likes to show W strut like a peacock in front of the military. Karl Rove arranges all photo ops. Have you noticed that both Laura and W now have dogs that prance in front of them when they deplane from Air Force One after a weekend at Camp David? W's cat, India, is relegated to the White House storage room, I suppose.