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There was a moment on Tuesday night when the Republican Convention looked like it just might slide right off the rails. The President had been banished from his own party. The running mate was caught in a media frenzy. And a Democrat was extolling the Republican nominee for a series of accomplishments that most delegates inside the Xcel Energy Arena deeply despise and resent. Campaign-finance restrictions, the Gang of 12 senatorial compromise on new judges, immigration reform, the acknowledgement of global warming - as Senator Joseph Lieberman ticked through the record of John McCain, it was so quiet you could...
That month, stock prices started to fall. The slide continued for 2 1/2 years. Then, for the second edition of Irrational Exuberance, published in February 2005, Shiller added a chapter on real estate. His argument: House prices had followed the stock market into a flight of fancy that was bound to end badly...
...million We Campaign (short for "We Can Solve It") opens a new front in the battle against global warming. Rather than trying to scare viewers with dire predictions of climatic apocalypse or wear them down with climate science - there's nary a polar bear nor a PowerPoint slide to be seen - the We Campaign seeks to mobilize widespread public support for action. If Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was meant to diagnose climate change for a country that at the time was still widely skeptical, the We Campaign is meant to find a cure. "One of the things that...
...Good decision. Liukin's bars score of 16.650 earned her enough points to slide past teammate - and world champion Shawn Johnson - for the women's all-around gymnastics gold. The one-two finish is a first for the U.S. in the event, and marks the first time that the U.S. has defended the title after Carly Patterson won the gold...
...city of Samarra, 65 miles north of Baghdad. The blast triggered a round of sectarian bombings, massacres and kidnappings so horrifying that for the next year and a half, many Iraqis would wonder if life would ever return to normal - and had many in Washington warning of an intractable slide into civil...