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...almost as an afterthought, he added: It might be a good time to buy stocks instead. Liu balked. "I don't really understand the stock market,'' says the 35-year-old, "why it goes up or down." Now she is kicking herself. "I can't believe I was so dumb," she says, "but I think it's too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manic Market | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...Moore: Because what?s even more broken is the fact that our Congress and White House are bought and paid for by these two industries, which rival the oil industry in terms of money and influence. They have a vested interest in maintaining their control. But they?re not dumb. They know which way the wind is blowing and that this is the No. 1 domestic issue with Americans. Their job now is to try to control it so that universal health care is run through them, so that they can still skim the money, make the obscene profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Moore's New Diagnosis | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...released this fall. But there's an irony to Hosseini's success: he became famous as the face and voice of a country he hadn't seen since he was a kid, and whose sufferings under the Taliban he completely escaped. "It's sheer luck," he says, "blind, dumb luck that I'm not there. My family happened to leave before the Soviets, they had the means to leave and make a new life. I felt ashamed, like I should have suffered more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kite Runner Author Returns Home | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...than 30 tunes, some more familiar than others, and two comedy sketches - the first (the 1923 "The Yellow Peril") a one-gag item in which goldenrod flowers on the stage make all the actors sneezes they speak, the other (the 1949 "Gorilla Girl") about a jungle movie with very dumb starlet and a very smart gorilla. Both sketches cue you that, for just this once, Encores! is out to have a roaring good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Fabulous Follies | 5/12/2007 | See Source »

...received rave reviews. Critics praised Tamborello’s honest dedication to collaboration and his ability to work with fellow artists to create new sounds in the studio. The style of blending seemingly clashing tones that earned Tamborello staunch defenders in 2001 remains dominant on “Dumb Luck,” and once again proves to be the shining facet of the album. Like a car that hasn’t been driven in a while, “Dumb Luck” literally shudders to a start, but soon begins to purr and take its audience...

Author: By Eric M. Sefton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dntel | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

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