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...least) three good reasons to fret. First, the events of the past 14 months have made predictions of impending economic doom seem a lot more credible than they used to. When Faber forecasts not only a worthless dollar but also a "collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today," it's impossible to dismiss him out of hand. Second, the data point that has dollar worriers most alarmed - burgeoning U.S.-government debt - is for real. Finally, the global monetary setup we've had since the early 1970s (one with the dollar at its center) is looking rickety. Something...
...Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...Since I can remember. My uncle was very much my hero, and I wanted to be like him before I was really old enough to know what acting...
Mostly I work in accents--American or northern English or French--and they're all something I have to master. Usually I have a dialect coach, and I didn't on this film. With a dialect coach, you know that one person is in charge of your accent. Without one, it means the director's giving you dialect notes and the grip gives you dialect notes and the other actors are going, "Well, that sounded a bit ..." You feel terribly...
...epitome of Philippine politics, where power grows out of barrels of patronage. Political reformers worry that that is the style Pacquiao has been learning during his decade of kingdom-building and distributing wealth to family friends and allies. Ramon Casiple, a prominent political analyst and reform advocate, says Filipinos know that model too well to want it from their hero. "They don't want him to run, to dirty himself and open himself to charges of corruption...