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...Edwards as his running mate. Meanwhile, some of the biggest names from the Clinton diaspora have found new homes--and possibly future employment--in Kerry's world. For economic policy, Kerry taps former White House economic adviser Gene Sperling, Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. He also asks them to speak on his behalf in the daily sound-bite war with the Bush campaign. Clinton's U.N. representative Richard Holbrooke is so influential when it comes to Kerry's foreign policy views that he is considered the odds-on favorite to become Secretary of State...
Still, to get an idea of which stocks might fare best under Kerry, it's useful to look at those that did well under Bill Clinton. Kerry's economic team is packed with onetime Clinton advisers, including former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, and Kerry has made clear his affection for Clinton-era policy...
...Paul E. Berglund, Joyce E. Hawley; Armand Phaneuf, Katherine Hannefin; William P. Mogey, Elizabeth Altman; Daul Altman, Sherry Hawkins...
Really, the language issue is a stand-in for a bigger question. There have been other dark and complicated takes on the western--Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove--but they, like westerns themselves in recent years, have been as occasional as tumbleweeds. We still associate the genre with the moral simplicity and cliche of its heyday: straight-shooting, black and white hats. (When President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," he wasn't going for relativism.) Are we ready for the genre of John Wayne...
Deadwood HBO-izes this material, though, not just in its profanity but in its moral ambiguity and social criticism. The show is like McCabe for more reasons than that it involves whorehouses and business conflicts. Like the '70s movies of Altman, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola and others, HBO's dramas rework popcorny genre formats (the cop drama, the Mob flick) with dark, even cynical themes: that institutions are corrupt, that people and systems and families will screw you over, that heroes are never entirely heroic or villains alone in their villainy. Deadwood wants to show not just...