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...makes a virtue of his temperament as the right setting for the current climate. Americans, McCain says, "expect me to get angry, and I will get angry, because I won't stand for corruption." His impulsive intervention in the bailout negotiations suited his narrative as an action hero: Suspend the campaign! Postpone the debates! His message is practical, real world, get it done; someone around here has to know when to pull the trigger. He sees Obama as a shooting star, all speed and vapor. To McCain, words aren't a form of action; only acting is a form...
...full of mysterious catastrophes. Obama proposed tax breaks for businesses that create new jobs, a freeze on foreclosures by banks that participate in the government's rescue program and a public-works fund to rebuild the nation's infrastructure while keeping people employed. He embraced McCain's proposal to suspend the rule that would require retirees to start liquidating their 401(k) holdings at the bottom of the stock-market crash. And he went a step further, proposing that Americans should be able to withdraw some of those retirement savings without penalty during the economic crisis...
Markets in Asia and Europe reacted with hope - or at the very least with calm - to moves made on both sides of the Atlantic over the weekend to convince traders to suspend the Great Stock Dump-a-Thon that eviscerated indices for most of the previous week. After Asian markets progressed with modest gains Monday, trading in Europe opened with similar advances, with France's CAC 40 and London's FTSE surging nearly 6% after the morning's opening...
...sell-off will end eventually, one way or another. Governments could follow the nerve-racked Russians and suspend trading altogether, in a bid, as Touati says, to stop "markets from sawing off the branch they're sitting on." The more likely solution, Touati predicts, will soon come as "smart and steely investors realize selling now is a sure way to lose, while buying now will determine who the big winners tomorrow will...
...German Pope's many gestures of goodwill toward Jews during his three-year papacy was to effectively suspend the internal Vatican process that leads to sainthood for Pius, citing a need for a "period of reflection." Now, however, Benedict appears to have finished his own reflecting on the historical virtues of the Italian Pope who reigned from 1939 to 1958. At a special Mass on Thursday marking 50 years since Pius' death, Benedict praised his wartime predecessor's actions to save Jews and called on Catholics to "pray that the cause of his beatification goes forward smoothly." Beatification...