To the extent that consumers and firms are postponing spending decisions because of nervousness about an impending war, they may find cheaper borrowing costs less of an incentive than they otherwise would.

ECONOMIST: On the offensive

" David Bomberg, a brilliant graduate of London's Slade School, who was painting admirably adventurous pictures of his own, remembered decades later that "the tense figure operating the Drill as if it were a Machine Gun" amounted to "a Prophetic Symbol of the impending war.

WSJ: Masterpiece: Jacob Epstein's Prophesy

In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.

ENGADGET: Sony says it's open to creating a single DVD standard