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...Evelyn Keyes, 91, played Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen in Gone With the Wind and had the female lead in the 1941 hit Here Comes Mr. Jordan, remade by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait. Better known for her string of rocky marriages: to directors Charles Vidor and John Huston and bandleader Artie Shaw. It was her fourth trip to the altar, Shaw's eighth...
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...right mix? Who knows? But if it's any solace, the intellectual godfather of all economic-stimulus plans, economist John Maynard Keynes, didn't think the specific content mattered all that much. It would be better to do something "sensible" with the money, he wrote in the 1930s. But the economy would still be helped if government simply chose to "fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal mines, which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire...
...good understanding of how government works and what the challenges are." - John Koskinen, former colleague in the Treasury Department, on Killefer's qualifications for the chief-performance-officer role, Associated Press...
...debate over these historical matters may become moot if the current conflict continues and the trip to Israel gets shelved. Less politically oriented than his immediate predecessor, Pope John Paul II, Benedict finds his comfort zone when reflecting on church history and digging into Christian theology. Having already written during his papacy a best-selling scholarly treatise on Jesus, Benedict had envisioned his trip to the holy sites in the Middle East as above all a pilgrimage to the birthplace of his faith. Such was the case in 1964 when Pope Paul VI visited holy sites on the first papal...