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...numbers for the rest of the week could either confirm or deny Tuesday?s newfound economic euphoria. Wednesday brings the revised productivity number for the second quarter - survey says a slight retreat from the former 2.5 percent to 2.0 percent. Being that we?re in the middle of a business-cycle inflection when layoffs and production cuts race each other to the ground, you may infer absolutely nothing of the New Economy?s long-term prospects from this news. Thursday brings up-to-the-minute unemployment-claims numbers for the last week of August, and a services report from today...
...Historically, what the stories represent is the evolving merger of journalism and entertainment; the retreat of corporate media owners not only from the larger, serious responsibilities of journalism but even from a notion of what those responsibilities might...
...radio?s most sophisticated show. In "Treasure Island," the second show in the series, a blind pirate approaches Jim Hawkins? inn, and for more than a minute we hear nothing but menacing footfalls, a fierce knock on the door, a rat-tling of the locked latch and a slow retreat. For the dungeon scenes in a magnificent version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," Welles (Edmond Dantes) and Collins (the Abb?) lay on the CBS men?s room floor and spoke into a micro-phone at the base of the toilet seat, while the toilet?s flushing suggested waves breaking...
Lauren Artress, an Episcopal priest at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, founded the modern U.S. labyrinth movement after discovering this quiet pleasure during a retreat in New Jersey in 1991. "We have a vast spiritual hunger in the West," she says, "and labyrinths are a tool for centering...
...Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees]F, the actors could at least retreat to air-conditioned dressing rooms between scenes. The audience happily endured it all, giving the performers standing ovations...