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...Wednesday and Thursday, meanwhile, the importance of Edwards and Kerry themselves made the convention’s identity crisis easy to ignore. Tuesday, then, presented an existential question of sorts: without old heroes or current leaders to focus the spotlight on, how would the Democratic Party present itself...
...have to swim." The newsdesk gets the photo, and the copy, filed painstakingly by payphone, on time. It's one puzzle piece in a day dictated by deadlines. Whit-taker's soon hurrying to meet the first of the day: 11 a.m. news conference. The media likes pointing the spotlight but doesn't court the same attention, and few see inside the conferences that hatch each day's game plan. There, sitting side by side, Stutchbury and Mitchell quiz the editors of the sport, business, arts and world pages on their strongest yarns. Then Whittaker runs through a list...
...accused the newly emerging "modern" world of being devoid of spirituality. In the arts, Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Blake charged that industrialization was stripping people of their individuality and their connection to the past, while in politics, Karl Marx accused capitalism of ruthlessly exploiting workers. Buruma and Margalit spotlight the often striking overlap in language and ideas between Europe's intellectual rebels from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and today's Islamic reactionaries, and demonstrate how that influence was transmitted. Many of Iran's Islamist revolutionaries, for example, absorbed Marxism's critique of the capitalist West...
Options are in the spotlight because earlier this year the Financial Accounting Standards Board voted to require companies to treat them as an expense, making clear a cost that had been relegated to the footnotes. The tech world, which claims it needs stock options to attract good employees, has led the opposition. No lesser lights than Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan have endorsed expensing. Here's the rub: surveys show that if options must be expensed, nearly half the companies with broad plans will cut back grants to the rank and file, while only a handful will cut equity-based...
...It’s going to be performing again, which I’ve missed, but a very different kind of performing, and one where I’m very much in the spotlight as opposed to the edge of the spotlight,” Slichter says of the book tour. “I suppose it will be higher pressure, but then the potential for fun is also higher...