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...Orszag and others inside the Administration are trying to feed the fire. And in spite of Obama's insistence that his team must walk and chew gum at the same time - make that "run and chew gum," his advisers recently amended - it is starting to register that nothing would stoke the flames better than a credible strategy for cleaning up the banks. As a senior Administration official puts it, "The money is less important than restoring a sense of confidence." (See pictures of the world watching Obama's Inauguration...
...James Salt, director of organizing for the progressive organization Catholics United, thinks the USCCB has been prodded into focusing on FOCA by misinformation from conservative groups. "These right-wing organizations are deliberatively misleading people in order to stoke the culture war," says Salt. "They're using this as a fundraising tool, as a way to gin up their relevancy. And unfortunately, some of these groups have the ear of certain bishops...
...onstage, the Cramps were spectacular. Interior could stoke a crowd with writhing and pogo-ing that made Iggy Pop look like a folksinger, and when he opened his mouth to deadpan songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," he could make the crowd laugh too. Perhaps the Cramps' most perfect performance was a 1978 concert at the Napa State Mental Hospital in California. "Somebody told me you people are crazy," Lux screamed from the stage, "but I'm not so sure about that...
...international adventures. For this he has been named the recipient of the U.S.'s two top civilian medals. But those adventures contributed to a steep decline in Blair's popularity, which was a key factor in his premature departure from office in 2007 - and they stoke the hostility that informs British press coverage of today's award...
...competitors aimed to stoke readers' prurient desires, and in winning the battle, they ended up transforming American culture. By marketing sex as a normal, healthy pursuit, Playboy prodded the country to dispense with "old-fashioned moral strictures on one of the most powerful of human urges," according to Hefner biographer Steven Watts. But their efforts may ultimately have been too successful for their own good. A nation receptive to porn and wired for the Web has been a dangerous combination for print magazines. With pornography comprising 25% of all Internet searches, according to GOOD magazine's estimate, magazines have seen...