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...presidency at a time when economists spoke of a "new era" from which recessions had been banished. The federal reserve was held in high esteem. The stock market was robust. Unfortunately, his extra-presidential talents notwithstanding, Hoover's one term administration proved astoundingly incompetent. Ever the tinkerer, when the Crash of '29 struck, he strove to intervene, mounting what "progressive" economists dubbed "a new attack on poverty." Big businesses were prodded to keep wages high, resulting in massive, intractable unemployment. The infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff was enacted, leading to the implosion of international trade. And tax rates were hiked drastically...
...network's counting on her to deliver more than celebrity methane. This season the networks have recruited scads of established celebs to draw viewers (see box), always a risk. (Nathan Lane's crash-and-burn in 1998's Encore! Encore! hovers like Marley's ghost over star vehicles.) On Bette, CBS has placed a huge, um, wager, running it opposite Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (which provides a cute running gag in one early episode). "It's probably the most anticipated show of the new season," says CBS television president Leslie Moonves, "and that's a huge burden...
...need to lose weight, don't try to drop more than a pound or two a week. It takes patience, but such slow progress is safer than crash dieting and more likely to produce lasting changes...
...else loves this music as much as me that maybe I didn't hustle like I should. In any case, "Rare Masters 2" is gone. I'm in shock, I walk out of Newberry's like a man with a bloody forehead walking away from a car crash...
...cast Braugher, a specialist in depthful, surprising characters. Fresh out of Juilliard, Braugher was introduced in the 1989 Civil War film Glory as a Harvard student turned soldier. The neophyte didn't even know what the phrase "hit your mark" meant; star Morgan Freeman gave him a "five-minute crash course in how to act." He has since done film, TV and stage turns in roles from Henry V to an ex-con/karaoke singer in the current Duets...