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...that John McCain has decided to attend Friday night's debate, Ole Miss should be able to breathe easy. The presidential debate, after all, is supposed to be Ole Miss's big moment. Hosting the first such forum of the general campaign, administrators hoped, would help the school shed the racial-backwater image that has clung to it since its embattled 1962 integration, when 120 federal marshals could barely hold back the violent riots that left two civilians dead and dozens injured. The fact that the debate participants will include Barack Obama, the nation's first black presidential nominee...
...Scientists hope that what happens in the collider’s tunnel, sunk some 300 feet below the ground, may help to shed light on the mystery of dark matter, the ultra-massive entity that many theoreticians believe to be an important component of the universe. Some also have said that extra dimensions may be revealed when the collider works itself up to speed...
...poetry, while Frampton seems to have been motivated by a fierce sense of competition with his envelope-pushing contemporaries. Shortly after Brakhage did film about an autopsy, Frampton went to the same hospital and demanded to film a decapitated head for a short of his own. All this explanation shed some light on the seemingly meaningless whims of some of the filmmakers. However, Sitney did acknowledge the arcane nature of many experimental films. “These came out of a deeply personal and idiosyncratic language,” he said. Sitney ties it in part to the American psyche...
...Slowly but surely, Japan has reconstituted its financial sector after its Lost Decade of the 1990s, and now its firms are in a position to expand aggressively abroad. Japanese financial institutions shed some $440 billion in bad debt since the late 1990s and have been barely grazed by the subprime crisis, partly because they were reducing debt as western firms were taking on more and more. Now, the bargains available in the U.S. afford Japanese banks an opportunity to move beyond their mature home market. Japan's economy is the world's second-largest, but it is plagued by slow...
...tiptoeing begin. As of July, American companies had already shed more than 1.1 million jobs this year, and with Wall Street?s recent financial woes, that figure is sure to grow. Chances are, someone you know will meet this unpleasant fate in coming months; while outright avoidance may work when it?s junior?s Little League coach, handling a relationship with a friend or coworker who?s recently suffered such a blow needs a delicate touch. To help, TIME?s Kathleen Kingsbury sought the advice of Anne Baber, co-author of How to Fireproof Your Career, based on interviews with...