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...There aren't likely to be any honorable blockbusters this year. Instead, the nominees for the Best Picture Oscar are almost sure to include No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, two ultraviolent dramas much loved by critics but too weird to be crowd pleasers. Atonement could fill the period-film slot; Sweeney Todd might get a nod for its crimson passion. With all this caviar on offer Oscar night (if there is an Oscar night), the beer-and-nachos audience will stay away, and the ratings will suffer VDD--viewer deficit disorder...
They're turning 62 this month, the first of the baby boomers are. Adorable, aren't they, as they hum along to the Beach Boys on their iPods and dream of Davy Crockett coonskin caps? In February the 100,000 or so of these January 1946 babies who opted for early retirement will get their first Social Security checks (averaging between $900 and $1,000 a month), marking the beginning of a demographic wave that will boost the program's rolls from 50 million to 80 million over the next two decades. Not so adorable...
Today's high prices, unlike those of the 1970s, aren't the product of a passing shock. There's reason to expect more increases over the long haul. What prices do in coming months, though, is anybody's guess...
...these undeclared voters? For starters, they aren't as independent as the media and political campaigns usually make them out to be. Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center and the state's pre-eminent pollster, says the great majority of those who register as undeclared actually think of themselves - and consistently vote - as either Republicans or Democrats. "They're not really independents, and it's very misleading to call them that," says Smith, who estimates that only 8% of the New Hampshire electorate truly wanders from one party primary to the other. What's more...
...Hampshire dynamic could be reversed at the next contest, on Jan. 15 in Michigan. The major Democratic candidates, facing sanctions from the national party because the state moved its primary date so early, aren't seriously competing there. But the Republican contest will be a spirited one, meaning that independents - and even some Democrats - will be drawn into the action. McCain won the last contested GOP primary there in 2000, but Mitt Romney - who grew up in Michigan and whose father was Governor of the state in the '60s - is making a serious bid tailored to independents' tastes. Though Romney...