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...says Cohen. That's nearing the danger zone. "If they cut any more, they won't have enough to even come close to making their number," he says. "They have to sell enough to pay the electric bill." Likewise, retailers are ratcheting down staffing. College kids might have to look for jobs outside the retail sector to generate extra Christmas cash. Best Buy is bringing in 16,000 to 20,000 holiday hires this season, down from 26,000 in 2007. (The good news for hopeful or clueless males: Victoria's Secret and Toys "R" Us say they'll keep...
...need musical talent to play these games. What you need is a weird combination of vanity and lack thereof: vanity in that you have to really believe, somewhere in your lizard brain, that you are a rock star; lack of vanity in that your human brain still knows you look like an idiot. But when it works, you experience music in a completely new way. Never before have I actually enjoyed Megadeth. Conversely, never before have I hated Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue." But it's really long, and the drum part is really boring...
There's the chance that all the well-meaning Obamamania can turn into Look Who's Coming to Washington fetishization. A New York Times article about the Obamas' school search described "little girls ... swooning over the prospect of White House sleepovers with the daughters of the nation's first black President," as if kids care about the race of the dad handing out the invites. There's a gaping tone to some of the coverage: Wow, just look at them...
...other hand ... well, just look at them, on every channel and newsstand. And consider the context. This year the networks announced a schedule of new fall series without a single black lead character. Now America's biggest television show--a family comedy, a West Wing--style drama and true reality TV--has an African-American cast...
...ironies are plenty. That fashion glossies, which once rarely had cover models of color, would be jockeying for photo shoots with Michelle. That a TV business with long-standing diversity issues would be fascinated with this family's values. And that a still white-dominated press would look to a black man to boost its bottom line, fix the economy and save the planet. But will he still have time to take the kids to school when he's done? Tune in next week and find...