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...Jesse Jackson, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and Bruce Shapiro (New Press; October). "This will be a must-read for anti-death penalty advocates...FORECAST: A hot political topic and high-visibility father-and-son authors guarantee media attention for this that should generate at least an initial spike in sales...
...fashioned slowdown in which things get steadily worse over a period of many months. Already, Singapore's GDP is shrinking after it grew 9% last year. The jobless ranks in Taiwan are more swollen than they've ever been in history; not coincidentally, the suicide rate has seen a spike too. Unemployment rates are also rising in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. Companies everywhere say the carnage will only get worse in the months to come...
...Hard to say. Thursday, we got the news that first-time unemployment claims hit their highest weekly level in nine years, and that was pretty scary. But the weekly numbers aren't too reliable, and until we see that four-week rolling average - or the monthly unemployment report - really spike, we can really start to assume that we've avoided a recession...
...complicated than Britney Spears. Some are sterner stuff, made by artists working in subtler ways (or at least in more conservative wardrobes) and beyond the noise of the cash registers. But among the artists, whether they make rap songs or novellas, sitcoms or Cibachrome prints, dance steps or designer spike heels, there are increments of quality. They lead upward from the figures who are merely (though sometimes massively) popular to the ones who are truly accomplished--in other words, to the best...
...America gets to claim him--as he claimed it 24 years ago, when he went to college in Illinois. Soon he was in New York City, studying film and assisting another Lee (Spike). Now 46, he still edits his films there and lives in Westchester with his wife Jane and their two children...