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...anyway, it hasn't worked.) The purpose of a stimulus is to get the entire economy moving again. Put money in people's pockets and let them spend it. Or, even better, let's spend it together on national projects like fixing the highway system. Bring on the earmarks! Hey, Sarah--where did we stash those plans for that Bridge to Nowhere? (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...July and had his final cut by the end of October. This cool efficiency endears him to screenwriters (if he likes a script, he shoots it without demanding a million rewrites) and most actors (if he likes Take 1, he prints it and goes to the next scene). Hey, it's only a movie. And often--say, Breezy, Pale Rider, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Flags of Our Fathers, to skim five off the top--they are movies that have the craft and heart of classic Hollywood, without that musty antique odor...
...always referred to as "Sabbath gasbags" - the Washington people who appear on television on Sunday - were wrong, I guess, 100% of the time. They were almost never right. There were constant surprises. Who expected any of this stuff? It was only in looking back at it that you realized, hey, at one point this was going to be [Rudy] Giuliani vs. Hillary Clinton...
...Hey, Rudy: Organize This! Joe Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin made similar sarcastic remarks, the insult was personal and deep. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years, yet her accomplishments in the communities she loved are still lauded and taught to a new generation. Klein's comment - "This is who [community organizers] are: they are the people who won this election" - was a balm. Julie Yugend...
...Hey, Rudy: Organize This! Joe Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin - with sarcasm that made my skin crawl - remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign - Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been...