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...There’s a sort of unreal quality to the fact that I’m up here trying to convince a bunch of people that they shouldn’t close a senior center,” said Robert Carey, a patient at the Center...
...There are a bunch of them. At the 50,000-foot level, the Internet is going to be used to connect us to every single electronic device that we have in our lives, and that's a really exciting thing for a company like Intel ... A lot of the content that you watch on TV is proliferating online, so you get to watch whatever you want, when you want to see it. That's already happened in audio, it will happen in video as well ... Mobile phones have evolved into small computers, and the iPhone has changed people's views...
...responsibility to regulate. Through all those explanations runs the thread of risk--and how it was mismanaged. Financiers, as well as the investors who bought their wares and the ratings agencies that evaluated them, agreed that by applying the proper equations it was possible to, say, bundle a bunch of subprime mortgages, chop them up and sell the pieces as fairly safe securities, even as they were leveraged to the hilt. Why? The mathematical models--backward-looking and based on just a few years' data from an asset bubble--said so. "As an industry, we let financial tools...
...staff continues to maintain that they are feeling good, pointing to those polls that show the race tightening in key states. But the race remains a hard hand for McCain to win. The public polls show him behind in a bunch of states that George W. Bush won in 2004. But polls don't decide elections. Voters do. And so McCain must now wait. As a practical matter, his campaign is already over. All that's left is to find out how well the American people think he did. -By Michael Scherer, with the McCain campaign...
...recount but isn't representing any side this time. (Richard, ironically, is a lifelong Democrat who is voting for Obama.) "Florida could be close," he adds, "[but] it doesn't look like it's all going to rest on a single state. McCain has an uphill battle in a bunch of states. Going into the 2000 election, it was tight all over the place." True enough. But fair or not, when things get tight in Florida, Americans instinctively brace for a car wreck and its long-lasting damage...