Word: presentism
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...Friday. "Modifications are hard - they're done for people who are struggling with their mortgage, and so you expect a lot of people not to make it - and a lot of people won't make it." However, he says two-thirds of the people in the government's present loan-modification program are current on their payments. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...We’ve been increasingly cramped in the present case—the specimens have been packed together, making it hard to access and work on them,” Hanken said. “We’ve needed to decompress them...
...because there's a broad consensus among Israelis that at least the Old City should remain in their hands. And there are Israelis now so deeply settled in the middle of Arab neighborhoods, sometimes sharing the same building, that any attempt to draw boundaries in the city would likely present a constant source of tension, and even violence. "It's human nature to think that all problems can be solved, but maybe Jerusalem cannot be solved," says Berkowitz...
...everything he says is mumbled nonsense and the only laugh lies in him being '80s icon Chevy Chase. But a gory running joke involving another prominent face from that decade - Back to the Future's Crispin Glover, playing a one-armed bellhop in the present and an intact but accident-prone bellhop in the past - might be the single funniest thing in the movie...
...indoor cigarette smoking, a "Where's the Beef" T-shirt and Ronald Reagan live on TV - Nick grabs a woman and demands, "What color is Michael Jackson?" Her well, duh response - "Black!" - sends all four shrieking to the safety of their room. It's funny, but in the present, Jackson isn't of ambiguous color, he's actually gone - and so the joke hangs in the air for an uncertain second. It's a reminder of how good it is to be able to laugh at the passage of time, because otherwise, you're crying...