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...Clooney also preempts situations that might earn him ridicule later. So he has either turned down every gift bag he's been offered or has put them up on eBay for charity. "I've been smart about that. Rich famous people getting free s___ looks bad. You look greedy. And I don't need a cell phone with sparkles on it," he says. He sends handwritten apology letters to the directors whose scenes he ripped off in the movies he directed-Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack. He drives an electric car and a Lexus hybrid...
...chief justice of Pakistan has been detained with his family - [he has] three young children who are all going to school. One boy is a special child [i.e., developmentally disabled]. One is surprised that your top American officials are talking about Musharraf as if he is god's gift to America. It's sad and it is counterproductive. Would you suspend the U.S. constitution and then hold elections? So why is Pakistan any different? Are we any less deserving of democracy...
WEAK SALES January retail sales this year were the lowest in nearly four decades for that month. Gift-card sales were up 17% last year across the U.S., but about $7.8 billion worth (about 8% of all gift cards) have gone unused...
...THIS MATTERS Retailers don't make money on gift cards until the cards are redeemed. When purchased, they're recorded as a liability--essentially an interest-free loan. Worse yet for retailers, in some states, if a card is not redeemed after a few years, its value is considered unclaimed property and is required to be turned over to the government...
...mean that. Among current or recent figures in American public life, only Colin Powell shares McCain's mystical ability to make liberals believe he secretly agrees with them, no matter what he actually says. And Powell has to work at having it both ways. For McCain, it's a gift. Mitt Romney demonstrated that there are limits to how many brazen flip-flops the voters will tolerate. But when people believe you are telling the truth if you agree with them and lying if you disagree, you don't need to flip-flop...