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...driving turnout: wide-open races for both party's nominations, the historic candidacies of both a black man and a woman, a general concern about the direction of the country and rising economic anxiety. Michael McDonald, a political scientist at George Mason University who studies voter participation, pointed in particular to Barack Obama, whose age and cross-party appeal has helped attract unusual numbers of independents and young people to Democratic contests. As of now, he says, independents are breaking for Democrats by a ratio of two to one. "One of the reasons why independents and young people are voting...
...crucial question is whether the country's policymakers - in particular the Federal Reserve - are capable of steering the economy between the twin risks of a painfully deep recession and yet another bout of unsustainable, debt-fueled consumer spending. There seems to be little controversy over whether the Fed should ease rates, but there's lots of controversy over when and how much. The Jan. 22 rate cut came as a shock, but it did seem to calm the markets, if not buoy them...
...time. And how could an erudite, well-traveled Frenchman who alludes throughout his book to canonical authors and works - from Homer to Boccaccio to fellow French writers like Dumas and Molière - not have been familiar with Baudelaire's 19th century writings about drugs, hashish in particular? One can only speculate that De Monfreid's feigned innocence is a raconteur's device, making his descent into the netherworld of drug smuggling all the more delicious because it is happening to a drug...
...month-long meeting of a congregation of Jesuit leaders, Benedict implored the order to hold firm in Catholic tradition on matters of morality and sexuality. "It could prove extremely useful that the general congregation reaffirm, in the spirit of St. Ignatius, its own total adhesion to Catholic doctrine, in particular on those neuralgic points which today are strongly attacked by secular culture," the Pope said...
...baby bumps as more and more starlets trade in their haute coutour for stretch pants. Everyone from J. Lo (twins!) to Nicole Kidman is preggers, including Halle Berry, Pamela Anderson and Nancy Kerrigan. People magazine is starting to sport more pregnant women than Maternity Monthly. But one pregnancy in particular has ignited a media frenzy, even winning more coverage than that war in Iran or whatever. Famed megastar Tracey Gold, who ascended to superstardom on hit-TV show Growing Pains…it was a show on ABC Family back in the 80’s, you know with...