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Experts say Genitti's mind-set is quite common in this environment. "What we're beginning to see is the consumer returning to feel-good spending," says Cohen. "But they're not doing it recklessly. They're sticking their feet in the water. Consumers aren't running about and buying new cars or $1,000 handbags. They're saying, Let me get a candle. And take a bath...
...movie plot of a successful career woman and her male secretary was actually a Hollywood staple in the '30s (Man Wanted) and '40s (Take a Letter, Darling), long before the setup was common in American business. Here, the underling role allows Andrew to direct the kind of barbs at Margaret that all secretaries wish they could say with impunity to their bosses. (For her to be sweet, he says, "is going to require that you stop snacking on children when they dream.") The Proposal also employs the antique device of the warring couple obliged to act like lovers. Margaret...
...Demons are released at the theater in Arusha. One of the guys carries a not-so-secret torch for Hannah Montana. I never would have expected to be singing along with an Avril Lavigne song while bumping down an African highway, but these little things make up a common language that reaches even to the furthest corners of the world...
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...rustic stone-and-glass octagonal structure was built nearly two decades ago through private funds; President George H.W. Bush dedicated it in 1991. At the ceremony, Christian singer Sandi Patti sang and the late Cardinal James Hickey of Washington delivered a sermon calling the chapel a "witness to our common belief that we need to seek divine guidance in the conduct of our national affairs...