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...early March, when Ohio and Texas hold their primaries, Clinton is counting on recouping whatever ground she loses over the next few weeks. Ohio is a state in economic distress, and has large numbers of blue-collar Democrats, who have been her strongest supporters. Clinton also expects to draw upon institutional support from organized labor. In Texas, her strategists say, the large number of Latino voters will give her an edge, as they did in California. If the race continues to be close, the last big contest, Pennsylvania's April 22 primary, may well be the decisive...
Since Brokeback, he had been having general career success but personal distress. He had separated from Williams and had moved out of their sunny yellow Brooklyn home. At the same time he was receiving accolades for his performance in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There and had completed filming his role as the Joker (a character Nicholson immortalized) in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, a potential blockbuster. At the news of Ledger's death, Mel Gibson said, "I had such great hope for him. He was just taking off, and to lose his life at such...
Still, people need to eat, and since World War II, outright declines in consumer spending in the U.S. have always been modest and brief. That's partly because the government has become so acutely responsive to signs of distress. The Fed is already on the case, with three interest-rate cuts since September and more likely on Jan. 31. There's also fevered talk in Washington of a fiscal-stimulus package--income-tax rebates are a possibility, although so far Congress and the White House haven't been able to agree on anything...
...Senator is not a perfect fit for independents, and he would have an uphill climb in the fall. Economic distress is moving some independents toward the Democrats, and McCain has yet to develop proposals to help them. But at least he has his eye on the prize at a time when his party has become a kingdom of the blind...
...estimated 151,000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006. Only 57% of Iraqi women said they had heard of AIDS. About 21% of Iraqi women said they experience physical domestic violence. And about 36% of respondents received a mental-health score indicating "significant psychological distress...