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...appearance in the series (played here, as in Casino, by Jeffrey Wright). And a rooftop chase that's the stunted little brother of the terrific parkour exertions in Casino Royale. And the startling image of a dead nude woman painted head to toe in black oil, a reference to poor gold-plated Shirley Eaton way back in the 1964 Goldfinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brisk, Brutal Bond: The Quantum of Solace Review | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...know I'm not going to answer it. I grew up in Demopolis, Alabama, where my parents and grandparents taught me you don't ever talk about how much money you have or how much things cost or how much you make. My grandparents would roll over in their poor graves if they heard me talking like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Investing Legend Jim Rogers | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Brent Scowcroft, former national security advisor under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Gerald R. Ford, said last night that the greatest challenge facing the next president is the poor image of America abroad...

Author: By Manning Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scowcroft Speaks On U.S. Image | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...election. While Nosek said that “the undecided voters may break slightly more for McCain,” he added that he expected the overall effect to be relatively small. Banaji also noted that because the data was collected online, it inherently “underestimates the poor, those who are not computer literate, and perhaps even conservatives.” Nonetheless, the research presents fascinating questions for the academic world. Harvard Psychology Professor Ellen J. Langer called the work “fabulously important.” She added, “I think that our implicit...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Test Says Voters Are Decided | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time." Americans had a lot to be proud of back then: World War I was thoroughly behind them, radio had been invented, and automobiles were growing cheaper and more popular. Sure, the disparity between the rich and the poor had widened within the past decade, but Americans could now buy goods on installment plans - a relatively new concept - and families could afford more than ever before. Stocks were on a tear: between 1924 and 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average quadrupled. At that time, it was the longest bull market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash of 1929 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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