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...Then one day Ethan's mother made him a bold offer. If he could go a full month without watching any TV, she would give him $200. None of us thought he could do it. But Ethan quit TV, just like that. His friends offered to let him cheat at their houses on Friday nights (Miami Vice nights!). Ethan said...
...political cache. Though the financial meltdown dominated global conversation for months, it has recently faded into the background of political discourse. Through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75’s aggressive policies, and the Obama administration’s bold moves, the financial system has been resuscitated to a quasi-functional state, all to the negligence of the media and resultant ignorance of the general public...
...Average Diner go. I related to him; he took me out of myself; I measured my appetites against his. Sometimes I gloried in my conformity, as when writing hosannas to the universal white-bun hamburger of old. At other times, the Average Diner allowed me to celebrate my bold heterodoxy: he didn't like rare hamburgers or dark chocolate...
...spears of green mango and Starbucks baristas clapped in unison. A gaggle of mini-skirted ladies from the Eros Lounge even shook their booties for the crimson cause. Far from the air-conditioned enclaves of élite Bangkok, ordinary residents sweltered in the 40?C heat to make a bold statement: We do not fear the reds because we are the reds. (See pictures from Thailand's April 2009 protests...
...both a security problem for the nation and a political problem for the Obama Administration. Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp., says a TSA without a confirmed leader hurts in two ways: it's bad for front-line morale, and it means there will be no bold policy proposals coming from the agency. "TSA can continue to tread water while it awaits a leader," says Jenkins. "But the threat is dynamic, and treading water isn't good enough...