Word: note
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...Note that The Hurt Locker, the predictors' favorite to cop Best Picture and Best Director, has the second lowest total gross of the 10. But those awards are announced at the end of the show; Avatar should have piled up enough little-people statuettes in the intervening three hours to keep the masses satisfied. The big threat to big ratings, as of mid-afternoon Sunday, is that the show may not be seen by millions of viewers in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Westchester county and on Long Island. Disney, in a dispute with the cable supplier Cablevision, last night shut...
...expensive entitlement in the form of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit to colossal business-as-usual earmark spending. Bush also tarnished his personal image by staying largely silent in the face of ethics flaps involving Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff and other scandal-plagued Republicans. (Obama should take note, as he continues to sidestep meaningful comment on the long-running travails of Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel.) When Bush ran for President, he, like Obama, suggested he would regularly cross his party's congressional wing when he thought they were dead wrong. And Obama, like Bush, has lashed himself many times over...
...good news for Obama is that each one of these errors is fixable, and there are signs that the President and his staff are working to address at least some of them - for instance, by adding new policy heft to the chief of staff's office. The more cautionary note, however, is that Bush never solved these problems, which plagued him from his earliest months in the White House until the day he left. Candidate Obama's repudiation of Bush's eight-year presidency was focused on his predecessor's ideology. He should have taken stock of Bush's executive...
Financial giant Citigroup has recently stepped up its efforts to prove to the world that the bank is on the mend. In January, CEO Vikram Pandit said his firm had made enormous progress in 2009. And in February, Citi launched a blog to note that among other things, the bank's focus is "Our Clients. Period." But there is one area where the bank says it is no longer exceptional: it's no longer taking U.S. government handouts...
...signed the receipt and handed it back to him. "I've learned that there is no privacy anymore," he said, sighing. "It's funny. I went from being nobody when I was elected attorney general to then becoming, in a very twisted way, a celebrity." He went on to note that everything that is good and bad about him is now visible for the entire world to see and discuss - his own reality-TV show indeed. "It's weird," he said. "I feel as though my life - have you seen The Truman Show, that movie? - I kind of feel...