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...most potent weapon in Ventura's triumph was his up-the-Establishment attitude, his platform quotations from such political thinkers as Jerry Garcia and Jim Morrison, his TV commercial showing him as an Action Figure doll doing battle with the Evil Special Interest Man. ("I don't want your stupid money," growls the Ventura doll.) Some may call it the Revenge of the Couch Potatoes, but Ventura's campaign galvanized younger Minnesotans. They swarmed to the polls to register and vote on Election Day--Minnesota law allows same-day registration--in such numbers that some polling places...
...were due for a stock-market smackdown. For 14 months debt markets have been stressed - and practically catatonic since mid-September. "Maybe it's a surprise, with 20/20 hindsight, that stocks held up as well as they did for as long as they did," says Bob Doll, chief investment officer for equities at BlackRock. "At the end of the day, lower-quality credit and stocks do have some things in common." The fear that has made investors shy away from all but the safest of debt finally moved on to the next logical step: fear of stocks, which inherently...
...does get work as an extra in a series of movies and TV shows, but the bit parts lead nowhere, so she begins to write screenplays of her own. One of them, nestled like a matryoshka doll into the novel itself, is about an ignorant but good-hearted rural immigrant to Beijing who works as a street vendor. The structure of the novel itself resembles a screenplay, told in highly visual prose broken into a series of short chapters. The Beijing Olympics brought viewers images of the city's monumental new architecture. But Guo gives us the insider vantage...
...glutted with satire--The Colbert Report, the Onion, JibJab--there is still a special power to an old-fashioned SNL impersonation. It's shamanistic; it's like owning a voodoo doll: capture your target's soul, and you can make her dance just by waving your arms...
...soared, their lean, lithe bodies slicing the air like tiny blades. In the end, China's women's gymnastics team prevailed in the team final, capturing the gold, with the Americans taking silver and the Romanians rounding it out with a bronze. But even as the Chinese team's doll-like faces broke out into giant smiles, a question mark hung over the mats at the National Indoor Stadium. Last month, when China finally named its Olympic squad, legendary gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi complained that some of China's gymnasts were "obviously kids... and you're telling the world they...