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Then, too, they've screwed around with Klaatu, played now by Keanu Reeves, stripping him of all Christ-like attributes and turning him into a zombie-like figure, awash in ambiguity; once he gets to meet a few humans he see that they're really not such bad sorts after all. The guy was never a ton of fun, but formerly he was at least a figure of moral weight and - especially rare in popular entertainments - a believably brainy one, a kind of public intellectual before that egregious term was invented. Now he's pretty much a drip...
...Reid said with a twisted smile, both hands gripping the top of the lectern on the Senate floor late Thursday evening, before a compromise plan passed by the House on Wednesday went down to predictable defeat on the Senate floor by a vote of 52 to 35 (failing to meet the 60-vote threshold to cut off a filibuster). The last time Congress failed to pass a bailout plan that most had assumed was a done deal, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 777 points in one afternoon. The stock market on Friday morning was down only modestly, however, most...
...however, would agree to meet wage parity only by 2011, when their existing contracts expire, a recognition that reopening them before then would clear the way for difficult and unpredictable votes. "Evidently, the only thing that matters to the majority on the other side of the aisle is that workers get paid too much in this country, and unless we sock it to the worker, they will not be willing to allow a $14 billion bridge loan in order to save an industry," said Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat. "This is not tonight about Democrat and Republican. This...
...Rockaway, Queens, was for a long time primarily in the business of acting as a middle man between buyers and sellers of stocks. It is an essential function for a market like the Nasdaq, which doesn't have an actual trading floor where buyers and sellers can meet face-to-face. Madoff's firm was a major driver behind the growth of the Nasdaq, creating a system that courted brokers who had mostly traded stocks on the larger New York Stock Exchange to do more of their business with the Nasdaq. "He brought a lot of business to the Nasdaq...
Barack Obama has quit smoking. Mostly. As he told Tom Brokaw in a Dec. 7 Meet the Press interview, he has "fallen off the wagon" occasionally. Oh, all right: When pressed, Obama said he'd "done a terrific job under the circumstances" of keeping up a healthy lifestyle. He has vowed not to break the current White House ban on smoking, but if Obama takes his nicotine addiction with him to the Oval Office, he'll have distinguished (if smelly) company...