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...Financial Accounting Standards Board has determined that the terrorist attack of Sept. 11 was not an "extraordinary" event, in accounting terms - it hit everybody so hard it's the same playing field, just lower. Consumer spending gained disappointingly in August, personal income inched up even less. Construction spending shrank. And there was another contraction in manufacturing, the 15th month in a row, but considering it was September it could have been much worse. A long gray Monday morning of economic numbers that only add up to one thing: The third quarter was the first quarter of our recession...
Bush aides insist the surplus shrank mainly because of the slowing economy--a weakness the Office of Management and Budget, in a report last week, was careful to trace to the stock-market slide that started in March 2000. (Translation: Bill Clinton did it.) In truth, the lack of $46 billion of the missing $123 billion is attributable to lower general tax revenues because of the slowdown. "It's remarkable we have a surplus at all, given the yearlong slowdown," argues OMB director Mitch Daniels. The rest of the shortfall can be traced to Bush's military pay raise...
...touch with Clowes to work on Ghost World. At first, they tried a close adaptation of the comic. "It wasn't working," Clowes says. "We were sustaining the corpse of something. So we took little tangents and enlarged them, and took things that were large in the comic and shrank them down to tangents. It was changed at the atomic level." Clowes remained an active force during the shoot. "I have never seen a writer on set so much," says Johansson. "I kept telling him, 'Why are you here? You're the writer.' Joking, obviously...
...Working from a closet-size cubicle on the eighth floor of the D.A.'s office in downtown Philadelphia, the deceptively low-key DiBenedetto, now 49, gradually shrank behind a growing wall of cardboard boxes - his Einhorn files. He never had the luxury of devoting full attention to Einhorn, but it was always a priority. Although he sat at his desk, he worked from inside Einhorn's mind, having studied every word in the 63 different 150-page journals Einhorn left behind. Among the lines that stopped him, revealing the cold depths of Einhorn's darkness, were these: "Sadism - sounds nice...
...place too much importance on the fact that unemployment statistically went back down in May - a lot of that has to do with the fact the actual labor force - the proportion of the population 16 years of age and older who are either working or looking for work - shrank by nearly 500,000 people last month. The trend in the unemployment rate is still up since September's 3.9 percent, and this doesn't exactly reverse that...