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...over from the housing boom. (The fourth episode moves the action to Los Angeles as Givens chases a fugitive from his past. It's excellent as well, but the sunny setting changes the tone so much, to the lighter hard-boiledness of Leonard adaptations like Get Shorty, that it almost seems a different series.) (See pictures of Leonard's career...
...alliances were shifting. When he ran for President, Obama proposed a 10-year, $150 billion green-jobs plan at a campaign stop in New Hampshire; when the economic-stimulus plan was adopted in 2009, he pushed through billions of dollars for green jobs and alternative-energy strategies that included almost $20 billion for energy efficiency, $26 billion for renewable and alternative energies and $10.5 billion for electrical-grid modernization. The investments went a long way toward fulfilling the lobbying efforts of several core Democratic constituencies - unions, environmentalists and high-tech companies - which had been mounting more aggressive campaigns on behalf...
...typical of the lopsided world of children's films. There's a huge market for the sort of loud and cheerful entertainment that features singing chipmunks, love-struck vampires or wisecracking species from the Pleistocene era; family films regularly top the annual box-office blockbuster lists. But there's almost nowhere for quieter, less merchandise-ready, sub-$150-million-grossing movies to go. (See 10 lessons from the 2009 box office...
What the festivals occasionally lack in fun - the six children I gathered wouldn't sit through more than 15 minutes of Mai Mai Miracle, and one of them is so alternative, she has a single letter for a first name - they make up for in novelty. Almost nowhere else can adults, let alone kids, see such a collection of genuinely innovative and visually arresting short films. (See the best movies of the decade...
...Almost everyone seems to think that these mounting debts are a severe threat to American prosperity. But what if the real problem isn't too much debt but too much anxiety about debt...