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...anyone buys is undergarments. Of course, in retrospect, even Home Alone 18 would be appealing at this point, coming off one of Hollywood’s worst years ever. Who can remember a worse year than the one where the meaty offerings were unequivocally over-cooked Christmas hams like Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns, and one great film (Spielberg’s A.I.) that everyone hated? Furthermore, who ever thought that Tim Burton would make a truly, undeniably unwatchable film (Planet of the Apes)? Please, save us Santa. Repeat viewings of It’s a Wonderful Life...
When we last checked in with TIME's Board of Economists, at Davos in February, they were already warning that the economic woes of the U.S. were likely to spread to the rest of the world. So with America facing its biggest crisis since Pearl Harbor, what happens...
Wrong is clearly not intended to be the definitive live Radiohead recording; the eight songs barely scratching the surface of the monster two-disc concert format so beloved of Dave Mathews and Pearl Jam. Wrong also carefully avoids all the obvious song choices from Radiohead’s drop-dead back catalogue: There are no souped-up takes on “Paranoid Android” or stadium-sized singalongs of “Karma Police.” Instead, the album showcases new songs from the last two albums, and in many cases infuses them with a new vitality...
...June 1942, seven months had passed since Pearl Harbor, and still no news from the Atlantic or Pacific theaters had fundamentally lifted our spirits or given us hope for a quick and decisive victory. The Japanese had destroyed much of our Pacific fleet, Jimmy Doolittle had inflicted only psychological damage during his pilots' "30 seconds over Tokyo" and General MacArthur was forced to retreat from the Philippines...
...moved to Washington in the weeks after Pearl Harbor - remember, this was a war that everyone wanted to fight in - and worked as an attorney for a member of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel. One Sunday afternoon in June I was called and asked to report to the Justice Department, where for three months I worked as the youngest of 10 lawyers who tried the saboteurs. In the days after Hoover's announcement, I helped draft a proclamation for Roosevelt that created a military commission to try foreign spies and saboteurs, and denied them the right to judicial...