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...With Superbad and Daytrippers, Mottola worked within the confines of a single day to great effect. Adventureland presents the bigger narrative challenge. He wants us to feel the sticky heat of summer days and the humming thrill of the nights, but he's required to move things along, plotwise. To this end, he's made poor James a virgin who is eager to be otherwise, allowing romance to lend shape to the summer. Will he find love with Em? Or the practically mythical Lisa P? (The fact that she is not Lisa, not Lisa Peters, but Lisa P, is perhaps...
...automobile business is great. Just ask someone who's in it. "People want to buy cars," says Rod Buscher, CEO of Summit Automotive Partners in Denver, which owns 30 assorted dealerships nationwide. And he really wants to sell cars. The problem is that would-be buyers lack either the income or the access to credit that would allow them to drive a new Malibu or Lincoln or Camry off the lot. That won't last forever; in fact, the automobile business figures to be good in 2011 and terrific in 2012 - which also happens to be an election year...
...expectations for the G-20 meeting are so low that a great deal of positive action may come out of it, depending on whether the analysts looking at the agreements that think that regulation and stimulus are the tonics for the global recession...
...surprised that among the 10 ideas cited, there was no mention of the one that has most captivated the younger generation: the belief that we can all make a difference. Revitalizing suburbs and building biobanks are great ideas, but none will be executed if our future leaders don't believe these projects will benefit anyone. Rick Say, WEST CHESTER...
...Tell Us Something New In his article, former history professor Newt Gingrich misstates some facts about the 20th century [March 23]. The Great Depression did not give rise to Nazism or Japanese militarism. It was World War I and its aftermath that set the stage for both Mussolini's march on Rome and Hitler's attempted putsch in Munich. By the time of the Depression, in 1929, the fascists had been in power for years, and the Nazis had been growing in strength for most of the decade. Furthermore, Gingrich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply...