Of course the incident will attract the attention of the Cricket World Cup security personnel. What an incident like this also does is to undermine all the hard work that we do over a long period to promote this country's tourism product.

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I'm a 60-year-old woman. How dare he be disrespectful to an elder. I can't tell you how disappointed I am because I really like him and I really respect him. But false pride goes before the fall, so I'm certain that God will cause him to have to answer for the unkind lies that he's telling about Radio One. The things that he's saying are just absolutely, positively ridiculous.

He was the highest paid air personality on a one-market basis in the industry. Radio One paid him more than Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, any of them, on a one-market basis, and he has been so disrespectful.

There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.

We may be entering a period in which policy changes are even more dependent than they have been on current readings of the economy, with all the uncertainty such readings can bring.