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...while the stock market is a handy economic gauge, what we're really caught in now is a credit market crisis, and it is on the credit side that things are really happening...
...Most campaign journalism has a terrible sameness about it, and there are portions of this piece, culled from Wallace's week with John McCain during the fractious 2000 GOP primary race, that read like lots of other stories by lesser writers. But while he got caught up in the misery of travel and the griping of the press pack, Wallace also noticed that it was the television camera men who were the most trustworthy witnesses and analysts of the candidates' chances, and developed a deep appreciation for the sacrifices John McCain made, and the indignities he faced, as he tried...
...going on four decades, they've been the odd couple of Method movie stars: implosive vs. explosive, compressed energy and showboating showmanship. Robert De Niro caught our eye and kept it by being watchful, a figure of static electricity, a hoarder of his characters' motives. He did more by seeming to do nothing. Al Pacino was the total opposite: he laid it all on the table. Then he sliced it up, gobbled it down and spat it out. Before leaving the room, he'd scream at the table, smash it to pieces and use one of the splinters to pick...
...presidential campaign contribution to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, now Argentina's President. Chávez vehemently denies involvement in the money's shipment or in the alleged attempts by Venezuelan agents to cover it up and intimidate the U.S.-Venezuelan businessman caught transporting the suitcase...
...asked to join. Fellow students were impressed: founded in the 18th century, the venerable dining association confers membership to its ultra-exclusive ranks by invitation only. At his Bullingdon debut, Worth, wearing the distinctive tailcoat with ivory lapels that is required for all Bullingdon functions, caught a boat to Cliveden, a stately home turned luxury hotel. It was on board that he encountered Cameron. "There was a surreal Brideshead Regurgitated quality to the evening," says Worth, who went on to become a consultant and speechwriter for several heads of state. "I remember David quoting Winston Churchill extensively by memory - Churchill...