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...fails to enliven his own elementary script, and the film suffers from a lack of momentum. Written by Fergus and Hawk Ostby, “First Snow” follows flooring salesman Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce, “Memento”) as he feverishly attempts to avert his own imminent demise, predicted by a roadside fortune-teller. But while Starks’s life unravels as he falls prey to intense paranoia, “First Snow” loses focus and is unable to create the suspense needed to excite moviegoers. While Pearce entertains as a fast-talking...
...agree with Wiggin, then former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's legendary ability to pilot us past market jitters and avert major economic dislocations is something not to be praised but to be condemned. Among the doom crowd, Greenspan's decision to slash interest rates as the stock market plummeted in 2001, which fueled the last leg of the real estate boom, is seen as his gravest error. Despite his raising rates since then, Greenspan's successor Ben Bernanke is if anything even more reviled. His sin was committed in 2002 when, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board...
...elections, the U.S. and Western Europeans have cut off direct funds to the Palestinian Authority. Many critics have argued that the measures have amounted to a financial stranglehold of the Palestinian territories that is fueling a humanitarian - and political - crisis. But the Western powers insist they have tried to avert a that kind of crisis - and international pressure to compromise with Hamas - by pouring massive amounts aid into the territories via non-governmental organizations. According to U.S. and European officials, the Palestinians received $700 million in external support last year, compared to $350 million...
...Arab member of the proposed moderate united front is not following the Administration's lead: Not only is Saudi Arabia talking to Iran (where Washington calls for Tehran to be isolated); it is actively cooperating with Iran in shaping a political agreement to avert a civil war in Lebanon. Similarly, while the U.S. is demanding that Hamas be isolated and is pressuring Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to refrain from forming a unity government with the organization, Saudi Arabia is actively engaging with Hamas and promoting the formation of just such a unity government at talks currently underway in Mecca. Moreover...
...GreenBiz.com "Consumers remain depressingly ignorant about the environmental impact of what they do," he says. "They find no irony in getting into their SUVs to drive a few miles and buy recycled toilet paper." In other words, American consumers haven't really begun to change their habits. To avert the worst that global warming has in store for us, we may have to make decisions even more radical than the ones business leaders are making...