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Sometimes I wish politicians didn't keep the promises they make. Of course, that goes against all conventional political wisdom. A candidate makes a pledge on the campaign trail, a congressman takes a stand on the House floor and Lord help them if they decide to change their minds later. Their opponent in the next campaign skewers them and voters can be unforgiving. But I'm always nervous when a politician makes an ironclad promise, particularly when it has to do with the economy. Economic conditions are constantly changing. Assumptions and policy decisions made in one year - or even...
...right here," gushed Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, to CNNfn, and who knows, he might just be right. Stock-watching cynics still want those rich folks to dump equities en masse in a vale of tears - it?s called capitulation - before they turn bullish, and Lord knows they?ve been the smart ones for the better part of a year...
...real world--who needs it? Not the movies, not this season, when the true realm of the fantastic beckons so seductively. Great anticipations hover over two projects that bring to the screen the most cherished franchises of fantasy novels in the past half-century: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Directors Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opens Nov. 16) and Peter Jackson (The Fellowship of the Ring, due Dec. 19) have been on a sacred, scary quest. Each director must feel like...
...apparent problem vanishes, dissolves to a merely sentimental Marxist residue. Even without getting edgy, you could dress the Joads at the Gap. They could stop at McDonald's for a family meal. "I've preached for the Lord a mighty long time," Preacher Casey might say. "I've preached for the rich and poor. But these Big Macs is righteous, Lord...
...decade later, we make do with Chandra Levy/Gary Condit - not a bad production, with elements of Sex in the City fused to the Perils of Pauline. The villain looks like Jack Lord playing Skeletor. The mystery of Chandra's disappearance, once good for voluble dinner table speculation, is getting a little threadbare for want of developments...