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Sharp jokes, nutty family: in that sense, there's no difference between Arrested Development and Raymond. But Arrested is different in other ways--and thank God, since sitcoms are in a years-long creative and ratings slump. Whereas most sitcoms are set in that familiar fake world of couches and canned laughter, Arrested Development looks real and spontaneous. It has no laugh track and is shot documentary style, in handheld digital video, with sober narration by Ron Howard (a partner in Imagine, the show's production company). Viewers often think the show is improvised (like HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm...
...money exclusively on Germans, and not on things like welfare payments to immigrants. "We succeeded in crystallizing the idea that we should not have a multiethnic society but a German society," he says. That troubling pitch attracted young, disaffected voters who have come of age during the post-reunification slump. Some 20% of first-time voters chose the NPD, according to Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism at the Free University of Berlin. "The NPD conceals its ideology by presenting itself as socially engaged," Funke says. "But it is definitely a neo-Nazi party." The NPD is reviled...
...President's stock fell, the fortunes of his Republican rivals rose. The new leader of the Republican parade: meteoric Harold Stassen, whose 31% rating among Republican candidates sent him ahead of New York's Governor Tom Dewey for the first time. The news of Truman's slump sent a fresh wave of confidence surging through Republican ranks. It plunged Democrats into corresponding gloom. It also raised questions sure to be asked often between now and November. How accurate are the polls? Is their sampling really scientific? Are the polls, in short, leading democracy by its gullible nose...
...trouble actually began eight months before 9/11, when the city's recession started. But unemployment stayed below 8% until the attacks cratered tourism and finance, two pillars of New York's economy. The hits that came next - war, corporate scandals, declining stocks and low consumer confidence - prolonged the slump. From September 2001 to January 2004, the city lost some 138,200 jobs. Unemployment rose to 8.6% in January 2003, when nationally the rate...
...trouble actually began eight months before 9/11, when the city's recession started. But unemployment stayed below 8% until the attacks cratered tourism and finance, two pillars of New York's economy. The hits that came next--war, corporate scandals, declining stocks and low consumer confidence--prolonged the slump. From September 2001 to January 2004, the city lost some 138,200 jobs. Unemployment rose to 8.6% in January 2003, when nationally the rate...