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...donations from direct mailings is down 27% from the same time last year. Like City Harvest, the New York Food Bank receives the bulk of its donations during the holidays, and Boroff is nervous about December. "If people start to pull back, there's going to be a dire impact on us," he says. "It's scary...
...embody the Cold War ideological gulf demonstrated by Nixon and Khruschev's "Kitchen Debates." Hefner was a canny brand manager and a social visionary. He prodded the public to bare its darker desires-and in the process demystified sex for a generation. However, Watts may be inflating the impact of a man whose enduring legacy is a magazine often found stashed under teenage mattresses...
...last. At his Guildhall office, policy chief Fraser talks about his 45 years of experience in the City and says, "You just have to sit it out. It recovers." But he acknowledges that "it's a painful process and we are only at the beginning." The impact won't be felt across the board, either. Barring a financial cataclysm, London will retain its position as Europe's preeminent financial center for players from around the world. Some wealth management may migrate to Singapore or Dubai, rapidly emerging regional centers, and some of the back-office jobs that...
...danger of a teeming cast of malefacting characters: they get jumbled in the viewer's mind, and slack-jawed apathy ensues. Novels can afford a rich banquet of personalities; it's what readers sign up for. But ratiocination isn't welcome in modern movies, which prefer visceral impact over intellect. Not that the film should kowtow to ignorance--only that it might have streamlined the dramatis personae, the better to concentrate on the plot...
...with all that, an Obama win would be just a start. Surely the next day we would wake up with the scoreboard still the same. Our life spans would still be shorter, our prison rolls longer and our net worths lower than the average American's. But the psychic impact could be enormous. Young blacks, like me, in particular lived with the burden of having dropped the ball that the civil rights generation advanced. Obama is our particular vindication, in that he can't win without the votes of young blacks and in his specific mannerisms. He is the start...