Word: laming
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...thought paying $13.57 for “Lolita” on Amazon for your Lit and Arts core was pricey, think again. The Lame Duck Bookstore, specializing in rare books and manuscripts, recently sold a first edition copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s provocative masterpiece to a bookseller in London for $50,000. The book is inscribed with an illustration of a butterfly and is addressed to George Hessen, Nabokov’s closest friend. “It was common for Nabokov to draw butterflies in inscribed copies of his books for those close...
...economy has crumbled. It is too early to rate the performance of Bush's economic team, but we have more than enough evidence to say, definitively, that at a moment when there was a vast national need for reassurance, the President himself was a cipher. Yes, he's a lame duck with an Antarctic approval rating - but can you imagine Bill Clinton going so gently into the night? There are substantive gestures available to a President that do not involve the use of force or photo ops. For example, Bush could have boosted the public spirit - and the auto industry...
...White House - the earliest such visit for a President-elect ever - and on Monday Obama met with his former rival John McCain in Chicago. But just because the Republicans are proving to be good losers doesn't mean that they are willing to get rolled in this week's lame-duck session of Congress, and that's apparent in the deadlocked talks to help the auto industry...
Congress returns to Washington this week for a five-day lame-duck session, and Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for the first skirmishes in what promises to be a war to remake the U.S. economy. Fights are breaking out within the parties too. Liberal and centrist Democrats are arguing over how fast to push their agenda. Republicans in the Bush Administration and Congress are split over whether to continue deep intervention in the markets. (Read "10 Things to Do with Your Money Right...
...Bush to host and attend such a summit was cause for hope. Just maybe, the thinking went, the severity of the crisis would force even American free-market fundamentalists to rethink their aversion to additional rules - especially to multilaterally binding measures enforced by international organizations. But since then, the lame-duck Bush Administration has signaled its opposition to any significant change to the current system of national regulations. And though President-elect Barack Obama's decision not to attend the event disappointed Sarkozy and other European leaders, some hope he'll be attentive to the concerns and proposals aired...