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Another store clerk joined us. She offered her impression that Palin "was like a snake for some reason," but her co-worker admonished her to stop paying attention to "gossip. You can hear gossip about anyone." The younger clerk sort of shrugged and said she might not vote at all. "I think they need to face more up to the economy," she explained...
...cool and cerebral, but I've always thought he is a kind of unifier of the bodily parts of the country because he exudes calm and it doesn't seem like a fake calm. He walks along like a person who's not in a hurry and that's sort of Southern. He doesn't have any Southern roots at all, but we had him on Wait, Wait (in 1995) and he was really funny. I tend to think that anybody's who's funny is part Southern...
Nonprofits have long sensed trouble. In its most recent Philanthropic Giving Index - sort of a Consumer Confidence Index for donations - the Center on Philanthropy reported in July that nonprofits were feeling less optimistic than they had six months ago. And that was before Lehman, before AIG, before the S&P 500 Index dove off a cliff. Gregory Boroff, senior vice president for external relations at the New York Food Bank, notes that his organization's donations from direct mailings is down 27% from the same time last year. Like City Harvest, the New York Food Bank receives the bulk...
That's exactly the sort of recessionary rationalization that charity leaders fear. For now, nonprofits are preparing for winter by paring back on nonessentials, even as they look to expand their base of donors. If the downturn is prolonged, we might see consolidations in the nonprofit sector, just as there have been in the business world. Ultimately, though, Americans will need to depend on the generosity of Americans. And the hopeful surprise is that in past recessions, donations to human services, like feeding the hungry, fell the least; in some downturns, they even rose. "That says something good about...
...memory card, and comes preprogrammed with 18 soundscapes. Some of them - the pounding of the ocean, the Lite FM jazz - appear to be designed to promote meditation. Others - classical music, running water, classical music played over running water - appear to be inspirational. Still others - there's a sort of marching tune in there - are more of the get-on-with-it variety...