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...performance, is an annoyingly sour observer of the proceedings, a time bomb everyone hopes will not explode before the marriage is completed. Her father, played by Bill Irwin, is a pious twit, sublimely unaware of how thin and weak his family's values are when put even to the mild test this wedding's kerfuffle presents. It is nice to see Debra Winger as his ex-wife - she's been away from the movies too long - but she mostly lurks on the fringes of the action and is not permitted to develop an arresting character. But then...
...Anyone who doubts that the U.S. is heading for recession is living in denial. On an annualized basis, real retail sales and industrial production are both declining. Unemployment is already at its highest level in five years. The question is whether we're headed for a short, relatively mild recession like that of 2001 - or a latter-day version of what the world went through in the 1930s: Depression...
...Mental-health professionals "are fascinated with what we're doing and excited to see the change in patients," says Dr. Gavin Andrews, who heads the St. Vincent's clinic. About 500 people have taken part in its trials of e-therapy for panic disorder, mild depression and social phobia, and "we are amazed by the results," he says. "Over the Web, we can produce exactly the same benefit as in our clinic, with a quarter of the staff time. We are curing people we never see." Andrews, who's also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales...
...That's all well and good as far as it goes. But it doesn't get to the question of degree. Businesses will be hurt - O.K. But businesses are hurt in a lot of economic downturns, some of them mild, some of them so catastrophic, they threaten our civilization. Which is this? How badly will businesses be hit? Like in a typical recession? Or like...
...Finally, through these mild French send-offs and bureaucratic forms of address, I had joined the ranks of the Metro Meter Maid. Phrase by phrase, rule by rule, I built my own bureaucracy...