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...move in the first weeks of 2009 to approve an economic stimulus package worth $500 billion or more. Obama declined to specify the size and said he would ask his new economic advisers to make a recommendation in the coming weeks. But he noted what he called a "pretty rare" consensus between conservative and liberal economists that a massive fiscal stimulus was needed...
...just one bestseller away from fame, travels to the countryside to interview the reclusive Manuel Kaminski and write the artist’s definitive biography. But he soon gets sidetracked from this task, finding himself on a road trip with the painter to the city. While this rare chance to spend some intimate time with Kaminski may have seemed like the perfect opportunity to enliven his book with personal anecdotes, Zollner realizes through this experience that to try to contain the artist’s life in a commercial biography would only trivialize this man’s actual experiences...
...with “Jeane,” a 1983 B-side that has never appeared on a compilation before now. With its prominent bass line and jaunty guitar melody, it is reminiscent of their fellow 80s-miserablists, The Cure, although the vocals and lyrics are classic Morrissey. Another rare, early B-side included is “Wonderful Woman,” the story of a boy’s love for a criminal woman who has “ice water for blood / With neither heart or spine.” There is also an extended version...
...rest of the night in a police van, they were sent to an overcrowded island detention center for between 15 and 45 days. Once they're released, authorities are likely to hand them a 30-day expulsion order and a free ferry ticket to Athens. But deportations are rare, so almost all will fall into a clandestine existence. Some may stay in Greece, but most will leave to search for work in European countries to the north and west...
...leader Kim Jong Il on his home turf, but these days, a growing number of South Korean activists seem to be pulling it off - meteorological conditions permitting. "We have to wait for the winds to be just right," says Choi Sung Young, who was able to take advantage of rare southerly winds on the peninsula on Thursday to launch nearly a dozen gas-filled balloons, containing thousands of flyers pillorying Kim Jong Il's regime, and watch them float toward the border. (See pictures of The Rise of Kim Jong...