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...That may all be true. But for every Lawrence Frank - whose New Jersey Nets reeled off 13 straight wins after he replaced a deposed Byron Scott in 2004 - there are many more instances where early-season firings fail to change a team's fortunes. Excluding Sacramento, which just fired Theus on Monday, the winning percentage of the five teams before their coaching dismissals was .277 (23-60). Since the firings, those five teams have gone a combined 7-28, a .200 winning percentage...
...charged with one of the most important items on Obama's agenda: getting the U.S. off imported oil and other carbon-rich fuels. "The pursuit of a new energy economy requires a sustained, all-hands-on-deck effort," Obama said. "This time will be different. This time we cannot fail." (Read "Sewage That's Clean Enough to Drink...
...original stage play format, “Frost/Nixon” is a film driven by its acting and directing. At key moments, the soundtrack simply stops, and the performers are left alone before the audience. Langella and Sheen often accomplish with one facial tick what most actors fail to do with their entire bodies. Riveting to behold, “Frost/Nixon” is a wonderful exercise in toned-down storytelling that’s uncharacteristic of ratcheted-up Hollywood. We are reminded in the interview scenes that one does not need the histrionics of digitized monsters...
...Reid and Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell both warned that talks may go through the weekend to reach a new agreement. One plan to ease final passage would be to allow two substitute bills, one Democratic and one Republican - cosmetic votes that would fail from the get-go but would give senators the chance to vote for certain provisions near and dear to their hearts that are not in the compromise package. Democrats, scrambling late Wednesday to find a way to get a bill passed, were also considering allowing votes on amendments. "We're trying to see if there...
...Relying on crisis to mobilize us is a luxury we have never been able to afford. Infrastructure decays slowly, and yet roads erode, bridges collapse, and levees fail. Some problems have existed so long that we forget there is any alternative until the Europeans figure it out first: universal health care, lower teenage pregnancy, access to higher education. Some, like the national debt, have become so large that successive administrations have simply passed them on and hoped they explode on someone else’s watch...