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...economy, I'm not sure that even the Japanese voters understand how painful this has to get before it gets better. The reality is that after 10 years of economic slump, the only thing that can force Japan out of its recession is a bigger recession...
...like actors Karina Suwandi and Ari Wibowo. In Bangkok, where the local skin trade has spawned a multitude of luk kreung, or half-children, the once-despised offspring now control an estimated 60% of the entertainment industry. And in Hong Kong, where the local movie business is in a slump, the one great hope isn't white at all, but a mix of white and yellow. Fetching young Eurasian actors like Maggie Q and Karen Mok crowd the screen, and through the wonders of global distribution (and video piracy) appear everywhere from the deserts of Tunisia to the shores...
There are plenty of minefields ahead before agreement is reached on a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In the wake of the U.S. economic slump, many of the hemisphere's vulnerabilities are more apparent than ever: wildly uneven income distribution in Latin America; a dramatic financial crisis in Argentina; rising levels of crime and pollution; deterioration of such institutions as public education and health in many nations. No agreement is possible without a meeting of the minds between Brazil and the U.S., and that did not seem probable on the eve of the Quebec City summit. Even...
...nowadays, Quattrocchi is mired in a sophomore slump. She dropped her first five starts of the season against tough competition, and her numbers haven't improved in Ivy play. She escaped with 8-5 and 7-6 wins over Princeton and Penn, respectively, in her first two Ivy starts, before getting hammered in 11-3 and 4-0 defeats at the hands of Cornell and Columbia, respectively, last weekend...
...That, of course, is not necessarily a good thing. In the middle of a slump like this, getting too excited about corporate prospects is asking for a slap in the face when the other kind of earnings news comes along - some of Wednesday's euphoria will inevitably be sold off, and probably sooner rather than later. But Greenspan's first concern was never the "reverse wealth effect" Wall Street had only just stopped screaming about (rallies will do that). For the Fed it was the Main Street stuff - jobs, malls, cars and houses - that was going to turn this slowdown...