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...moved. Abruptly glimpsing his own reflection in a dusty mirror leads to an unexpected 1949 self-portrait, The Revenant, where he stands perplexed and unbalanced in an abandoned room. The amber glass ball on a lightning rod in Northern Point looks to him "as if it were spinning in mid-air." And after four days of straddling the roof top and examining it with his feverish watercolor brush, Wyeth slowly turned to recapture in tempera that first instant of surprise...
...fathers are absent, as a political fact of life in communities, disorder and chaos follow. The lack of male role models perpetuate the problem and leave women and children emotionally and physically vulnerable. For anyone who bothers to walk the unforgiving streets of the poorest black neighborhoods in any mid-sized or large city in the United States, this is obvious...
...Since Jan. 2, the Standard & Poor's 500 index has given back roughly half of the 24% gain it had logged since mid-November's low of 741. The financial news, spiked with bankruptcies, bank losses, surging foreclosures, rising unemployment and a slew of lifestyle stories on how to live on less, is unnerving investors. On Thursday they confirmed their wariness by taking the Dow Industrials below 8000 briefly before boosting the index back to close at 8212, up 12.35 points...
...stocks headed back to the lows of mid-November, when the Dow sank to 7552? A further decline of 5% or so from Thursday's lows would put the market back near the November bottom. For stock-market technicians, a so-called double bottom, or return to prior lows, can be a healthy sign of base-building, which can set the stage for a sustained advance. But there are special risks related to any such swoon this time around: Bank stocks are among the market's weakest, and a further drop in their shares could place these institutions in jeopardy...
...that may force Geithner, 47, to do some self-evaluation. Along with Paulson and Bernanke, Geithner has been one of the key players overseeing the bailout of the banking industry. Some of the trio's decisions - like not rescuing Lehman Brothers in mid-September - have come under criticism on Wall Street and Capitol Hill for being hesitant and reactive. Associates say Geithner doesn't necessarily disagree with the charge that the government's response "has had an ad hoc, seat-of-the-pants quality to it," as a senior investment banker in the middle of things puts it. That...