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...good humor, there's a serious point to such protests. "Anger is an emotion that spurs collective action," says Bert Klandermans, a professor of applied social psychology specializing in protest behavior at Amsterdam's Free University. It's "an emotion that results from feeling that somebody is responsible for something, and could have acted differently," he says. For many, "the bankers did it wrong, and they did it wrong because they were greedy. That's what makes people angry." Still, getting wound up doesn't necessarily mean changing the world. Being heard, Klandermans says, is often enough. "In any demonstration...
...Saturn during the telecasts of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. "We're Still Here," one ad emphatically says, as if to squash rumors to the contrary. "It was an odd thing to see because it's a short-term fix. It's obviously part of a holding action," says Alan Baum, an analyst with The Planning Edge in Birmingham, Mi. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...ingenuity in its premise and the ingratiating voice cast, the movie works better as a sci-fi action picture - with some extraterrestrial vistas that come close to WALL-E's in their palette and precision - than as a comedy. That's understandable. As the first of its kind, M vs A wants to parade the range of its 3-D effects. It's quite a show, from the intergalactic rock slide that starts things off to the climactic destruction of the Golden Gate bridge. That's a tribute to a similar scene in Ray Harryhausen's 1955 It Came from...
...complaining, Geithner is likely to get much of the authority he wants. The power he is asking for could be invoked only under explicitly prescribed circumstances, similar to those imposed by Republicans on the FDIC in the early '90s, when it takes dramatic action in case of major banking crises. Though industry officials may gripe, Geithner's fixes are little different from the rules that traditional banks already abide by (and make plenty of profits under). And even the GOP might not have as many philosphical objections as one would expect. On the same day that Geithner rolled...
...problems of poverty that need some international response. On these very big issues, you've got agreement that the world has got to work together so that global financial flows are in some way supervised beyond simply national regulators. Every other crisis has been dealt with by countries taking action to solve their national problems. This crisis can be dealt with only by us acting internationally. Over the next 20 years, if we can solve these problems, you'll see another big spurt of growth in the world economy. I'm very confident about the future. (Read "Europe's Economic...