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Pessimism is in vogue. As third-quarter earnings roll in, Wall Street's analysts are slashing prior estimates, predicting many dire months ahead for major American companies...
...recent memory: mammoth crowds--more than 100,000 at a rally in St. Louis, Mo.--massive spending and poll numbers above 50% in some national and state surveys. A political body in motion tends to stay in motion unless thwarted, and the Democrats kept rolling along. Given their dire situation, Republicans have done an outstanding job sounding the alarm at the prospect of full Democratic control of Congress and the White House, while also remaining upbeat in public about their own chances on Election Day. But the Democrats have ably balanced a display of growing confidence with a stern warning...
...middle of 2010. But whether that happens will depend largely on the performance of the Iraqi government. And the possibilities for a reduction in U.S. troops in Iraq must be balanced against the likely need to send more to Afghanistan, where the situation now looks somewhere between difficult and dire. Here are two on-the-ground assessments of the wars that await the next President...
...This time around, Smith’s motley crew is a group of pornographically inclined misfits recruited by Zack and Miri to translate their porno vision into reality. Traci Lords and Katie Morgan bring their experience in pornography to the film, compensating for Rogen and Bank’s dire lack of finesse. Lords plays Bubbles, whose talent for blowing bubbles out of her vagina may actually be the best thing in the film, while Morgan portrays Stacey, the porno version of Elle Woods—she even has a little Chihuahua. “Clerks” fans will...
...This could be an early test for President Obama (it would be an impossible task for President McCain, given the Democratic enmity should he win). Will Obama be able to convince his party's leaders that the economic situation is so dire, and the public's opinion of Congress so low, that big new public-works projects will need the validation of an independent board? Will he be willing to spend his political capital on this relatively obscure notion? When Bill Clinton arrived in Washington, he found that his toughest challenge was herding the donkeys in his own party...