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...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl tells us that statistically - going back 40 years - there?s no immediate causal link between a reported spike in the unemployment number and decreased consumer spending. Scary news affects consumer confidence and often that shows up in their spending habits. But not for a few months down the line; for September, anyway, the people with jobs are likely spend, and the bottom line is still that more than 95 percent of the work force that wants a job still has one. (Even if maybe the new one pays a little less...
...perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as Father Damien Karras in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist and author of short stories that characterized subcontinental village life; in the southern Indian city of Madras. Narayan was an early pioneer among Indian literati writing in English. CHARGED. LI SHAOMIN...
Calasso also puts forward the claim that absolute literature exists without context, connected only to other pieces of absolute literature. Not in a causal link, mind you: Calasso reveals at the end of the book they are only related by the initiating impulse in the soul of the artist. A pretty slick answer to the accusation of arbitrariness, is it not? Maybe if Calasso had spent more of the book explaining why he feels “absolute literature” is without context, and proved that point before gallivanting around the literary canon like a madman, the book would...
...This week, the Appeals Court judges took a different view, arguing that there is no direct causal link between the site's plea for "evidence" and the deaths of several doctors and clinic workers listed on the site, and cited the distinction between a direct threat and secondhand encouragement. If the site "merely encouraged unrelated terrorists," Judge Alex Kozinski wrote, "then their words are protected by the First Amendment...
...Pentagon hasn't been dodging the issue. It has commissioned exhaustive studies, backed up by research by such respected independent bodies as the Institute of Medicine, that have been unable to sustain a causal link between exposure to depleted uranium and various ailments suffered by U.S. personnel who served in the Gulf. After all, from a political point of view, the Pentagon would prefer to resolve the issue, since the military gets blamed as long as the mystery remains. Judging by their response to Gulf War Syndrome, it's safe to assume that the U.S. military won't deny that...