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This is a moment of truth, first and foremost, for the United States of America, awakened suddenly from a comfortable slumber. Since the end of the Cold War or before, we have wrapped ourselves in dreams—of peace without struggle, of power without sacrifice, of victory without cost. We have heaped up wealth and lived in meretricious splendor, while our politicians squabble over imaginary “lockboxes” and our popular culture dredges the gutter for lowest-common-denominator fare. And we have fought our wars from a distance, dropping bombs from 30,000 feet...
...Inflation is technically the Fed?s chief enemy, but at a time when the world?s economies are in various states of slumber, from the U.S.? hangover to Europe?s lethargy to Japan?s coma, deflation is its worst nightmare. Deflation happens when people simply refuse to buy stuff, and any money that gets put into the economy by the central bank just sits there, unborrowed, uninvested, unspent. And there?s almost nothing a Greenspan can do about it, except wait. (Hey - he's fine. He invested in Treasurys in 2000 and beat the Street by a mile...
...front of a television set on Saturday afternoon when other, smarter kids were out running around. The first one that made an impression on me (coincidentally, Harryhausen's first solo commercial hit) was "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms," a 1953 B-feature starring a "rhedosaurus" awakened from eons-long slumber in arctic ice by - what else? - nuclear testing. It was based on a Saturday Evening Post story by longtime Harryhausen crony Ray Bradbury...
...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum--a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in Traffic, the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...
Many a valiant parent has buckled under the twin strains of trust vs. responsibility that go with parenting a teen. Coed teen slumber parties bring these concerns into sharp focus. Despite the natural questions that arise (I know--you're wondering if the kids are having sex in the basement), I am convinced that these parties can work. They can be fun, memorable occasions, but only if parents take an extremely active and responsible role...