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...declining U.S. dollar; Daley said the U.S. consumer, who has been the world's most important, was spent as an economic force. The severity of the criticism became so uncomfortable that one Chinese audience member took hold of a microphone and said: "You don't have to say bad things about the United States...
...films he has top-lined - Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up and Four Christmases - have taken in about $450 million at the North American box office; and even his 2007 Yuletide flop, the egregious Fred Claus, did $72 million. An actor who gets people to pay to see the bad movies he's in: that's a good definition of a star. The odder thing is that the large, shambling Vaughn is a babe magnet; the early audience for Couples was 61% female...
...zero weapons is a terrible idea. As bad as they are, nukes have been instrumental in reversing the long, seemingly inexorable trend in modernity toward deadlier and deadlier conflicts. If the Nobel Committee ever wants to honor the force that has done the most over the past 60 years to end industrial-scale war, its members will award a Peace Prize to the bomb...
Even without factoring in climate change, India's got a plate full of problems to deal with. Officials say ineffective management, bureaucracy and disaster planning have all contributed to the worsening of an already bad situation...
Fortunately, the alternative to optimism is not pessimism, which can be equally delusional. What we need here is some realism, or the simple admission that, to paraphrase a bumper sticker, "stuff happens," including sometimes very, very bad stuff. We don't have to dwell incessantly on the worst-case scenarios - the metastasis, the market crash or global pandemic - but we do need to acknowledge that they could happen and prepare in the best way we can. Some will call this negative thinking, but the technical term is sobriety...