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...President's Best Friend Bo, President Obama's new dog, acts as an icebreaker in what has seemed like months of recession-filled articles and accounts of how the current global financial crisis is causing havoc for many [April 27]. After all, it cannot be easy leading the world's most powerful nation through such treacherous times. Let's hope Bo can help ease the stress and put some perspective on Obama's life. Shaun Michael Dunlop, Cape Town...
...cleared the way for future profits and investment, but it has also reduced the number of consumers able to do any spending. Similarly, the current death throes of the housing market may prefigure an eventual rebirth, but in the meantime, falling prices and rising foreclosures are still wreaking havoc with consumer finances. More troubles for consumers could lead to renewed troubles for business and in housing, meaning there are feedback loops at work here that no economic forecast can fully capture...
It’s losses like these that drive proponents of the recording industry to paint Nesson as a head-in-the-clouds academic, advocating for a pet cause while showing little respect for the victims—artists and workers alike—of the economic havoc it might create. “Mr. Tenenbaum’s counsel may be using this case to further a crusade to gut the copyright laws that protect creators,” RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth wrote to me in a recent e-mail. “[But] for a music community...
...clean. "The officials say they have scrubbed down the school, which is great because I think schools are a cesspool of germs anyway," Wahl blogged. "I'm curious if the school has put soap back in the bathrooms? Officials took it out of the bathrooms because kids would wreak havoc with it making huge messes. But, my lord, shouldn't it be back in the bathrooms...
...comedy Four Christmases), McConaughey plays Connor Mead, a glamour photographer with an eye for philandering. After breaking up with three girls "in bulk," over a video conference call, he goes to his brother's wedding weekend, re-wounding his old inamorata (Jennifer Garner) while causing about as much domestic havoc as Anne Hathaway did in Rachel Getting Married, and with the same low entertainment payoff. This alpha dog is a baaad Connor; Scrooge-like, he must be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways...