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...economist, but it strikes me as imprudent for the government to bail out Wall Street because it nationalizes, or socializes, free enterprise, supports investors in the assisted companies at the expense of the general taxpayer, and sets a precedent for other troubled industries to ask for government handouts. This is welfare for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class. Daniel Spiteri, San Jose, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...America"--in a line of attack the Associated Press called "racially tinged." Fey's Palin hasn't set up mass viewers to see this side of her--not yet, anyway. It's not the funny, bumbling Sarah we know! We're conditioned to expect her to ask to "phone a friend," not accuse Obama of befriending terrorists. So the Fey version makes it harder to see Palin as an Agnewesque hatchet woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin vs. "Palin": When SNL Parody Becomes Campaign Reality | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...understand what Business Stripped Bare is really about; it probably could use a chapter about reading between the lines. So ask yourself, Do I really need another lecture along these lines, especially from some bloke who's also dying to sell me an airline ticket or cell-phone service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Aren't you just letting him off the hook? You ask the question, "What would most men do if they were irresistible and could have sex with any women they wanted?" Isn't that just an excuse?As a psychologist, my tendency is to be empathic. I'm used to making connections with people. That might be one way in which a biography by a psychologist might be a little different, because we don't feel that we're giving away the store if we allow ourselves to connect to a person we're trying to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bill Clinton On the Couch | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...feel dangerous anymore. No one is going to be caught checking his watch. No one will take the stage without memorizing the price of a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas. And because the campaigns ultimately set the rules, no audience member will be allowed to ask a question that hasn't been screened by some higher authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Plays Ball Control in Second Debate | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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