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...producers stick out their necks and reduce prices a little more to entice spending? Insisting consumers dig deeper into their savings is not exactly fair—not at a time of rising unemployment and uncertain futures. Not only is it unfair, it’s also just plain unlikely. According to a highly unscientific CNN “Quickvote,” only 17 percent of consumers plan to spend more than they did last year, while 41 percent plan to spend less...
...point, spending is essentially isolating - every dollar spent on that new pair of Manolo Blahniks is a dollar that didn't go to charity or a church or any of the other institutions that draw people together. And for too many Americans, the invitation to keep spending is just plain bad advice...
...fact (sometimes with good cause) that madrasahs (religious schools) in the Muslim world often teach their young students stereotypes, half-truths and outright falsehoods about the West. Unfortunately, according to a few tomes currently on the shelves, many people in the West are also shamefully undereducated or just plain miseducated about the history of countries in the Middle East and, in many cases, about history in general. Michael Parenti, in his book "History as Mystery" (City Lights, 1999), writes that a survey conducted in the 1990s by the Gallup Organization found that about 40 percent of American high school seniors...
...kidding. In her 23-film career?one of the rare Hong Kong actresses whose age, 31, exceeds the number of her movies?she has uglied-up, gotten disfigured, played a schizophrenic, a tomboy, a killer, a lesbian, and the plain old-fashioned bitch. In First Love: The Litter on the Breeze, she's described by one character as having "Satan's eyes." Few actresses would jump at a chance to play a female character named Turkey but she did, in Stephen Chow's God of Cookery. She tucked away her plumage to create a visually impaired, bucktoothed, kick-ass noodle...
...Americans and British total? Yes. There's British SAS and American Special Forces. The British are in plain clothes, the Americans are in uniform...