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...almost total. Never before, Wall Street yelps, have the market's fortunes been so entwined with Main Street's. Never before has the portfolio had so much hold over the wallet, and never before has so much broad-based American wealth been created and destroyed in so abrupt a lurch. The Wall Street contention is simple: These are again troubled global times, and the I-feel-rich American consumers who supported the U.S. economy through the Asian, Russian and hedge-fund tremors are on the brink of feeling very poor, and are acting accordingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Greenspan | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

...interesting thing about life is that it does not come prepackaged in a three-act structure the way most movies do. It tends to lurch along like--oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor this accurate reconstruction of those anguished days, we know everything came out all right in the end. But seen through the eyes of presidential aide Kenny O'Donnell (Costner), it is still a suspenseful tale. Well acted too, especially by Costner, and Greenwood as John F. Kennedy. The players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Twelve Films Of Christmas | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...interesting thing about life is that it does not come prepackaged in a three-act structure the way most movies do. It tends to lurch along like - oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor this accurate reconstruction of those anguished days, we know everything came out all right in the end. But seen through the eyes of presidential aide Kenny O'Donnell (Costner), it is still a suspenseful tale. Well acted too, especially by Costner and Greenwood as John F. Kennedy. The players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Movie Preview | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...what may go down as the strangest presidential election night in United States history, a victor was declared who was not yet a victor, a concession speech was awaited but never came, and an old-style Texas victory party was left in the lurch...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Texas Disbelief: A Victory Lost | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...drama worthy of the Bard, no winners emerged last night, as victory speeches and cheering crowds were left in the lurch and concession speeches were retracted. In the end, no man would emerge victorious, or at least on this night...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman and David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: In the Epic Electoral Battle, No One Wins | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

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