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...Heenes, like the Gosselins before them, we're seeing a new kind of show-biz family, a sort of reality-era von Trapps, for whom living in public is a given and privacy negotiable. We can expect to see only more of this in the future. People have got to make a living, after all, and families pull together. They do it for one another. They do it for the show...
...barely, but the sea that morning was heavier than it had been during training, and 5,000 yards turned out to be too far. Twenty-seven of the 32 DD Shermans sank. (You can hear Tom Hanks yelling about this in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan: "We got no DD tanks on the beach!") Of the five tanks that survived, three made it because their launching mechanisms had jammed and they were dropped directly onshore. In all, 33 men drowned. (See pictures of World War II movies...
...got my rough baseline from a conversation at the height of last fall's financial panic with Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is an expert on the Great Depression. "I doubt that we'll be able to avoid double-digit unemployment," he told me. "But I'm still confident we can avoid 24% unemployment like...
...called my cousin Josh Burd, who will one day be rewarded with a MacArthur "genius" grant for coupon-clipping, which he will then exchange for three Fulbrights and a night at a Marriott. Years ago, by combining coupons, discounts, rebates and a CVS Extra Bucks card, he actually got paid $3 to buy a product that accentuates the curls of black women. He still owns that product, with the vague hope of befriending a black woman and inventing a time machine that goes back to 1977. (See how Americans are spending...
Josh gave me lots of detailed advice on coupon-positioning and expiration-date-hiding, but as soon as I got to CVS, I was overwhelmed by all the math and rules and price signs that screamed, Wow! Guiding me by phone, Josh let me buy some fish-oil pills that were 2 for 1. But the woman at the register mistakenly rang me up for both bottles of pills, and then I had to wait 10 minutes while a health-care-bill amount of paperwork was filled out. Ten minutes may not sound bad for $7, but it takes just...