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...billion bid for AT&T Broadband, Wall Street has very little reason not to continue cashing in its chips this week. Friday's hefty selloff occurred in a complete optimism vacuum - why buy when unemployment is up, when the dollar won't quit, and when there's naught but dire second-quarter profit warnings in the air? And the bargain-hunters, as a crowd, are a long way from feeling bold enough to rush...
...health-care overhaul and lurched toward a wipeout in the midterm elections, his advisers insisted it was the delivery, not the content, that was turning off the public. "Guess what? It was the content," says Begala. "So we changed. We had to." Bush's predicament is not so dire. Robert Teeter, co-author of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that caused some anguish in the White House last week, says there's no need for the Bush team to panic. "People are still forming their opinions of him," says Teeter, a Republican. "All in all, he's in reasonably...
...other option," one of the surgeons, Dr. Laman A. Gray, said. "He was in as dire shape as you can ever have anybody...
Whereas Larson's show is sweet and cuddly, Urinetown is blunt and in your face. This Brechtian fable--a sellout hit in its tiny off-off-Broadway theater that is moving to Broadway in August--is set in a city where the water shortage is so dire that private toilets have been outlawed. The play overdoses a bit on winking self-references ("Everything in its time, little Sally," one character says to another. "Nothing can kill a show like too much exposition"), and the promise of sharp political satire is lost on the way to a generic cartoon...
...health-care overhaul and lurched toward a wipeout in the midterm elections, his advisers insisted it was the delivery, not the content, that was turning off the public. "Guess what? It was the content," says Begala. "So we changed. We had to." Bush's predicament is not so dire. Robert Teeter, co-author of the nbc News/Wall Street Journal poll that caused some anguish in the White House last week, says there's no need for the Bush team to panic. "People are still forming their opinions of him," says Teeter, a Republican. "All in all, he's in reasonably...