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...great performance, in which unhappy autobiographical details leak out through perpetually clenched teeth. Scott's student is, of course, his opposite. He hates her boots - inappropriate, he believes, for serious engagement with the auto's pedals - and he hates the casual good cheer she brings into the claustrophobic car they are obliged to share, and above all he despises himself for being drawn to her. We know that eventually he's going to flame out disastrously, but the suspense we feel as we wait for that to happen is exquisite - funny to observe, perhaps, but discomfiting (and dangerous) as well...
...gallon, American consumers made "a psychological shift into the sense of crisis and a sense of permanence," says Greg Priddy, oil analyst for the Eurasia Group in Washington. Instead of believing that gas prices would finally fall again, many began changing their daily habits - they started driving the smaller car in a two-car garage or consolidating shopping trips. That has meant a huge slump in Americans' gas use. Even before the market meltdown, Americans consumed 800,000 barrels of oil a day less during the first half of this year than the same period last year. As demand fell...
With Wall Street going off the cliff, and housing prices still declining in many areas, both spending and lending are being squeezed all across the country. Consumer lending contracted last month--that's practically un-American. Car dealers may fold by the hundreds, as customers can't get credit to buy and manufacturers won't finance dealer inventories. Holiday-shopping forecasts are getting bleaker. Declining home values mean more homeowners could default, further driving down property values. All that crimps tax revenues, and states such as Pennsylvania and New York are now trying to plug gaping holes in their budgets...
That said, health care is no longer recession-proof, because rising co-payments have given consumers some painful choices to make. Says Romoff: "Do I fill up the car with $50 of gas and take the kids to school and go to work, or do I pay the $50 co-pay to see a doctor?" He's limiting the growth of UPMC's salary-related expenses to 5% compared with last year. And yet despite the collar, the company will probably hire more than 3,000 people this fiscal year...
...ends in Megiddo, Israel, where some Christians believe the world will come to an end. The film starts out as rocky as the desert terrain on which Maher stands, clad in a sleek black suit, ready to take on modern religious extremists. Maher then appears driving in his car, engaged in a vain monologue that is unfortunately spliced throughout the film, causing it to lag. Luckily, most things that come out of Maher’s mouth tend to be downright hilarious—you just have to get past the fact that Charles, who directed “Borat...